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线性不等式约束下的 Wald、QLR 与得分检验AI 解读

This paper develops Wald-type, QLR, and score-type tests for linear equality constraints in a general class of extremum estimation problems where the parameter space is characterized by a finite number of linear equality and inequality constraints. We show that the asymptotic null distributions of the Wald and QLR statistics are discontinuous in an implicit nuisance parameter and propose an algorithm to identify it. In contrast, the asymptotic null distribution of the score…

空间动态面板中潜在群组结构的识别AI 解读

This paper considers the identification of latent group structures in spatial dynamic panels. We follow Lee and Yu (2010) and consider a rich spatial dynamic panel data (SDPD) model with two-way fixed effects. In addition, we also allow for latent panel structures where individuals can be classified into a few groups such that individuals within the same group share the common slope parameters and do not otherwise. Both the number of groups and the individuals’ group…

矩阵序列应采用单向还是双向因子模型？AI 解读

This paper investigates the issue of determining the dimensions of row and column factor spaces in matrix-valued data. Exploiting the eigen-gap in the spectrum of sample second moment matrices of the data, we propose a family of randomised tests to check whether a one-way or two-way factor structure exists or not. Our tests do not require any arbitrary thresholding on the eigenvalues, and can be applied with (virtually) no restrictions on the relative rate of divergence of…

具有较弱载荷的近似因子模型AI 解读

Pervasive cross-section dependence is increasingly recognized as a characteristic of economic data and the approximate factor model provides a useful framework for analysis. Assuming a strong factor structure where Λ0′Λ0/Nα is positive definite in the limit when α=1, early work established convergence of the principal component estimates of the factors and loadings up to a rotation matrix. This paper shows that the estimates are still consistent and asymptotically normal…

利用全球与国家因子分析大型波动率矩阵AI 解读

Several large volatility matrix inference procedures have been developed, based on the latent factor model. They often assumed that there are a few of common factors, which can account for volatility dynamics. However, several studies have demonstrated the presence of local factors. In particular, when analyzing the global stock market, we often observe that nation-specific factors explain their own country’s volatility dynamics. To account for this, we propose the Double…

NPIV模型平均导数的有效估计：神经网络估计量的模拟比较AI 解读

Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) can be viewed as nonlinear sieves that can approximate complex functions of high dimensional variables more effectively than linear sieves. We investigate the performance of various ANNs in nonparametric instrumental variables (NPIV) models of moderately high dimensional covariates that are relevant to empirical economics. We present two efficient procedures for estimation and inference on a weighted average derivative (WAD): an…

多重门限因子模型的收缩估计AI 解读

This paper proposes a multiple threshold factor model to enhance the flexibility in modeling the underlying regime switching mechanism for high dimensional time series. The factor loadings are assumed to switch between different regimes according to the value of a threshold variable. A novel estimation procedure is proposed to consistently estimate the multiple thresholds with the aid of sorting operation, principal component analysis and shrinkage estimation, which is…

第一价格拍卖模型的函数估计方法AI 解读

This paper introduces new methods of identification and estimation of the first-price sealed bid auction model and compares them with the previous existing ones. The first method of estimation allows us to estimate directly (through an iterative algorithm) the cumulative distribution function of the private values without estimating the private values beforehand. In the second method, we use a quantile approach. Although the first-price auction is a complex nonlinear inverse…

Tobit模型的工具变量方法AI 解读

This paper studies models of processes generating censored outcomes with endogenous explanatory variables and instrumental variable restrictions. Tobit-type left censoring at zero is the primary focus in the exposition. Extension to stochastic censoring is sketched. The models do not specify the process determining endogenous explanatory variables and they do not embody restrictions justifying control function approaches. Consequently, they can be partially or point…

存在溢出与不依从的实验中如何识别因果效应AI 解读

This paper shows how to use a randomized saturation experimental design to identify and estimate causal effects in the presence of spillovers–one person’s treatment may affect another’s outcome–and one-sided non-compliance—subjects can only be offered treatment, not compelled to take it up. Two distinct causal effects are of interest in this setting: direct effects quantify how a person’s own treatment changes her outcome, while indirect effects quantify how her peers’…

IV估计与推断中的工具变量强度：理论与实践指南AI 解读

Two stage least squares (2SLS) has poor properties if instruments are exogenous but weak. But how strong do instruments need to be for 2SLS estimates and test statistics to exhibit acceptable properties? A common standard is that first-stage F≥10. This is adequate to ensure two-tailed t-tests have modest size distortions. But other problems persist: In particular, we show 2SLS standard errors are artificially small in samples where the estimate is most contaminated by the…

线性回归中基于Stein型平均估计量的联合推断AI 解读

While averaging unrestricted with restricted estimators is known to reduce estimation risk, it is an open question whether this reduction in turn can improve inference. To analyze this question, we construct joint confidence regions centered at James–Stein averaging estimators in both homoskedastic and heteroskedastic linear regression models. These regions are asymptotically valid when the number of restrictions increases possibly proportionally with the sample size. When…

多弱工具变量下聚类样本 IV 回归模型的刀切估计AI 解读

This paper proposes new jackknife IV estimators that are robust to the effects of many weak instruments and error heteroskedasticity in a cluster sample setting with cluster-specific effects and possibly many included exogenous regressors. The estimators that we propose are designed to properly partial out the cluster-specific effects and included exogenous regressors while preserving the re-centering property of the jackknife methodology. To the best of our knowledge, our…

利用独立性细化 VAR 的集合识别AI 解读

Identification in VARs has traditionally mainly relied on second moments. Some researchers have considered using higher moments as well, but there are concerns about the strength of the identification obtained in this way. In this paper, we propose refining existing identification schemes by augmenting sign restrictions with a requirement that rules out shocks whose higher moments significantly depart from independence. This approach does not assume that higher moments help…

价值函数的一致推断AI 解读

We propose a method to conduct uniform inference for the (optimal) value function, that is, the function that results from optimizing an objective function marginally over one of its arguments. Marginal optimization is not Hadamard differentiable (that is, compactly differentiable) as a map between the spaces of objective and value functions, which is problematic because standard inference methods for nonlinear maps usually rely on Hadamard differentiability. However, we…

含外生协变量的因子 copula 模型估计与推断AI 解读

A factor copula model is proposed in which factors are either simulable or estimable from exogenous information. Point estimation and inference are based on a simulated methods of moments (SMM) approach with non-overlapping simulation draws. Consistency and limiting normality of the estimator is established and the validity of bootstrap standard errors is shown. Doing so, previous results from the literature are verified under low-level conditions imposed on the individual…

纵向数据惩罚分位数回归的野生 bootstrap 推断AI 解读

The existing theory of penalized quantile regression for longitudinal data has focused primarily on point estimation. In this work, we investigate statistical inference. We propose a wild residual bootstrap procedure and show that it is asymptotically valid for approximating the distribution of the penalized estimator. The model puts no restrictions on individual effects, and the estimator achieves consistency by letting the shrinkage decay in importance asymptotically. The…

含交互固定效应的异质面板二元响应模型AI 解读

In this paper, we investigate binary response models for heterogeneous panel data with interactive fixed effects by allowing both the cross-sectional dimension and the temporal dimension to diverge. From a practical point of view, the proposed framework can be applied to predict the probability of corporate failure, conduct credit rating analysis, etc. Theoretically and methodologically, we build a link between a maximum likelihood estimation and a least squares approach,…

扩展参数空间与相似性权重下的空间自回归AI 解读

We provide in this paper asymptotic theory for a spatial autoregressive model (SAR, henceforth) in which the spatial coefficient, λ, is allowed to be less than or equal to unity, as well as consistent with a local to unit root (LUR) model and of the moderate integration (MI) from unity type, and the spatial weights are allowed to be similarity-based and data driven. Other special cases of our setting include the random walk, a model in which all the weights are equal, the…

集合识别线性模型的去偏机器学习AI 解读

This paper provides estimation and inference methods for an identified set’s boundary (i.e., support function) where the selection among a very large number of covariates is based on modern regularized tools. I characterize the boundary using a semiparametric moment equation. Combining Neyman-orthogonality and sample splitting ideas, I construct a root-N consistent, uniformly asymptotically Gaussian estimator of the boundary and propose a multiplier bootstrap procedure to…

新冠疫情期间的股息暂停与现金流：动态计量模型AI 解读

Firms suspended dividend payments in unprecedented numbers in response to the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic. We develop a multivariate dynamic econometric model that allows dividend suspensions to affect the conditional mean, volatility, and jump probability of growth in daily industry-level dividends and demonstrate how the parameters of this model can be estimated using Bayesian Gibbs sampling methods. We find considerable heterogeneity across industries in the…

因子模型中长记忆的参数估计AI 解读

A dynamic factor model is proposed in that factor dynamics are driven by stochastic time trends describing arbitrary persistence levels. The proposed model is essentially a long memory factor model, which nests standard I(0) and I(1) behavior smoothly in common factors. In the estimation, principal components analysis (PCA) and conditional sum of squares (CSS) estimations are employed. For the dynamic model parameters, centered normal asymptotics are established at the usual…

面板数据潜在群组结构的估计与识别AI 解读

This paper provides a framework for joint estimation and identification of latent group structures in panel data models using a pairwise fusion penalized approach. The latent structure of the model allows individuals to be classified into different groups where the number of groups and the group membership are unknown. The individuals within a group have common slope parameters, while parameter heterogeneity is allowed across the groups. A penalized least squares (PLS)…

面板数据似然中得分偏差与信息偏差的作用AI 解读

We show why reducing information bias can improve the performance of likelihood based estimators and confidence regions in small samples, and why it seems to matter more for inference than for estimation. The insights in this paper are helpful in explaining several simulation findings in the panel data literature. E.g., we can explain the well documented phenomenon that reducing the score bias alone often reduces the finite sample variance of estimators and improves the…