To pool or not to pool: What is a good strategy for parameter estimation and forecasting in panel regressions?
合并还是不合并:面板回归参数估计与预测的策略
Summary This paper considers estimating the slope parameters and forecasting in potentially heterogeneous panel data regressions with a long time dimension. We propose a novel optimal pooling averaging estimator that makes an explicit trade‐off between efficiency gains from pooling and bias due to heterogeneity. By theoretically and numerically comparing various estimators, we find that a uniformly best estimator does not exist and that our new estimator is superior in…