On bootstrap validity for specification tests with weak instruments
弱工具变量下设定检验的自助法有效性
We study the asymptotic validity of the bootstrap for Durbin–Wu–Hausman tests of exogeneity, with or without identification. We provide an analysis of the limiting distributions of the proposed bootstrap statistics under both the null hypothesis of exogeneity (size) and the alternative hypothesis of endogeneity (power). We show that when identification is strong, the bootstrap provides a high‐order approximation of the null limiting distributions of the statistics and is…