Some Monte Carlo Evidence on the Relative Efficiency of Parametric and Semiparametric EGLS Estimators
One of the most common practical problems in statistics and econometrics is the estimation of linear regression models with heteroscedastic errors. This article reports the results of a Monte Carlo comparison of various parametric and semiparametric estimated generalized least squares (EGLS) estimators. In small-sized (20) and sometimes medium-sized (50) samples, ordinary least squares dominated the other techniques for low levels of heteroscedasticity. In medium-sized…