Publication Type
Journal Article
Version
publishedVersion
Publication Date
8-2017
Abstract
This paper develops exact finite sample and asymptotic distributions for structural equation tests based on partially restricted reduced form estimates. Particular attention is given to models with large numbers of instruments, wherein the use of partially restricted reduced form estimates is shown to be especially advantageous in statistical testing even in cases of uniformly weak instruments. Comparisons are made with methods based on unrestricted reduced forms, and numerical computations showing finite sample performance of the tests are reported. Some new results are obtained on inequalities between noncentral chi-squared distributions with different degrees of freedom that assist in analytic power comparisons.
Keywords
Endogeneity, Exact distributions, Partial identification, Partially restricted reduced form, Structural inference, Unidentified structure, Weak reduced form
Discipline
Econometrics
Research Areas
Econometrics
Publication
Journal of Econometrics
Volume
199
Issue
2
First Page
96
Last Page
116
ISSN
0304-4076
Identifier
10.1016/j.jeconom.2017.05.003
Publisher
Elsevier: 24 months
Citation
PHILLIPS, Peter C. B. and GAO, Wayne Yuan.
Structural inference from reduced forms with many instruments. (2017). Journal of Econometrics. 199, (2), 96-116.
Available at: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soe_research/2081
Creative Commons License
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Additional URL
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jeconom.2017.05.003