Publication Type

Conference Proceeding Article

Version

acceptedVersion

Publication Date

6-2017

Abstract

Ordinary least-squares (OLS) is well known to produce an inconsistent estimator of the spatial parameter in pure spatial autoregression (SAR). In this paper, we explore the potential of indirect inference to correct the inconsistency of OLS. Under broad conditions, it is shown that indirect inference (II) based on OLS produces consistent and asymptotically normal estimates in pure SAR regression. The II estimator used here is robust to departures from normal disturbances and is computationally straightforward compared with quasi-maximum likelihood (QML). Monte Carlo experiments based on various specifications of the weight matrix show that: (a) the II estimator displays little bias even in very small samples and gives overall performance that is comparable to the QML while raising variance in some cases; (b) II applied to QML also enjoys good finite sample properties; and (c) II shows robust performance in the presence of heavy-tailed error distributions.

Keywords

Bias, Binding function, Inconsistency, Indirect Inference, Spatial autoregression, Weight matrix

Discipline

Econometrics

Research Areas

Econometrics

Publication

Proceedings of Annual Conference of the Royal-Economic-Society, Univ Manchester, Manchester, England, 2015 March 30 - April 1

Volume

20

First Page

168

Last Page

189

Identifier

10.1111/ectj.12084

City or Country

Univ Manchester, Manchester, England

Additional URL

https://doi.org/10.1111/ectj.12084

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