Addressing endogeneity issues in a spatial autoregressive model using copulas
利用 Copula 处理空间自回归模型中的内生性
This paper develops a novel, instrument-free semiparametric copula framework for a spatial autoregressive (SAR) model to address endogeneity arising from an endogenous spatial weights matrix, endogenous regressors, or both. Moving beyond conventional Gaussian copulas, we develop a flexible estimator based on the Student’s t copula with an unknown degrees-of-freedom (df) parameter, which nests the Gaussian case and allows the data to determine the presence of tail dependence.…