Estimating Multiple Structural Breaks in Large Panels With Unobserved Heterogeneity
含未观测异质性的大型面板多重结构突变估计
This article proposes a novel algorithm to identify potentially multiple breaks in linear panel data models, while the slope coefficients can have individual heterogeneity and the cross-sectional dimension is allowed to diverge jointly with the time span. The algorithm adopts a shrinkage penalty to detect breaks, and delivers a consistent estimator for the number of breaks and fraction-consistent estimators for break dates. In the presence of latent grouped heterogeneity, we…