Tests for nonlinear restrictions under misspecified alternatives with an application to testing rational expectation hypotheses
局部误设备择下的非线性限制检验及理性预期应用
Summary This paper develops generalized method of moments-based (GMM-based) Lagrange multiplier tests for nonlinear hypotheses that are robust to locally misspecified possibly nonlinear alternatives. The procedure is based on an initial consistent GMM estimator of the parameters under a given set of nonlinear restrictions. The new test for one particular set of nonlinear hypotheses is consistent and has correct asymptotic size independently of whether the other, also…