stiwensun, I think you have misdirected the problem.
You may consider the ECM as a component capturing the "complete" information in the data generating process, while the VAR (in growth rate) as an inappropriately reduced VECM (if there does exist a co-integration relationship between the variables)
Which one is superior depends on the the objective of your research, e.g. forecasting expense with disp income?
ECM describes the long term relationship but is NOT especially used in long term forecasting, description and forecasting are NOT identical.


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