Author : Wouter J. Den Haan
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Book Synopsis A Practitioner's Guide to Robust Covariance Matrix Estimation by : Wouter J. Den Haan
Download or read book A Practitioner's Guide to Robust Covariance Matrix Estimation written by Wouter J. Den Haan and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper develops asymptotic distribution theory for generalized method of moments (GMM) estimators and test statistics when some of the parameters are well identified, but others are poorly identified because of weak instruments. The asymptotic theory entails applying empirical process theory to obtain a limiting representation of the (concentrated) objective function as a stochastic process. The general results are specialized to two leading cases, linear instrumental variables regression and GMM estimation of Euler equations obtained from the consumption-based capital asset pricing model with power utility. Numerical results of the latter model confirm that finite sample distributions can deviate substantially from normality, and indicate that these deviations are captured by the weak instruments asymptotic approximations.