Likelihood inference and the role of initial conditions for the dynamic panel data model
动态面板模型的似然推断与初始条件
Lancaster (2002) proposes an estimator for the dynamic panel data model with homoskedastic errors and zero initial conditions. In this paper, we show this estimator is invariant to orthogonal transformations, but is inefficient because it ignores additional information available in the data. The zero initial condition is trivially satisfied by subtracting initial observations from the data. We show that differencing out the data further erodes efficiency compared to drawing…