Unified Inference for Panel Autoregressive Models With Unobserved Grouped Heterogeneity
具有不可观测分组异质性的面板自回归模型统一推断
This paper considers unified estimation and inference in panel autoregressive (PAR) models. The PAR coefficients are assumed to contain a latent group structure that allows the degree of persistence for each time series to be heterogeneous and unknown. We propose a novel penalized weighted least squares approach to simultaneously identify the unknown group membership and consistently estimate the PAR coefficients, regardless of whether the underlying PAR process is…