A Generalized Poisson-Pseudo Maximum Likelihood Estimator
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We examine the Constant Variance to Mean Ratio (CVMR) assumption – a key condition to make PPML an efficient estimator – and propose Generalized Poisson-Pseudo Maximum Likelihood (G-PPML) as a complementary estimator. We estimate the conditional variance of the dependent variable using an iterated GMM, thereby providing a specification test for the CVMR assumption. The proposed G-PPML estimator, which capitalizes on conditional variance estimates, is more efficient than…