期刊
JOURNAL OF ECONOMETRICS
卷 126, 期 1, 页码 25-51出版社
ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA
DOI: 10.1016/j.jeconom.2004.02.005
关键词
generalized method of moments; variance correction; panel data
资金
- Economic and Social Research Council [RES-544-28-5001] Funding Source: researchfish
Monte Carlo studies have shown that estimated asymptotic standard errors of the efficient two-step generalized method of moments (GMM) estimator can be severely downward biased in small samples. The weight matrix used in the calculation of the efficient two-step GMM estimator is based on initial consistent parameter estimates. In this paper it is shown that the extra variation due to the presence of these estimated parameters in the weight matrix accounts for much of the difference between the finite sample and the usual asymptotic variance of the two-step GMM estimator, when the moment conditions used are linear in the parameters. This difference can be estimated, resulting in a finite sample corrected estimate of the variance. In a Monte Carlo study of a panel data model it is shown that the corrected variance estimate approximates the finite sample variance well, leading to more accurate inference. (C) 2004 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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