Generalized method of moments, efficient bootstrapping, and improved inference

被引:77
作者
Brown, BW [1 ]
Newey, WK
机构
[1] Rice Univ, Dept Econ, Houston, TX 77005 USA
[2] MIT, Dept Econ, Cambridge, MA 02139 USA
基金
美国国家科学基金会;
关键词
bootstrapping; empirical likelihood; panel data;
D O I
10.1198/073500102288618649
中图分类号
F [经济];
学科分类号
02 ;
摘要
Generalized method of moments (GMM) has been an important innovation in econometrics. Its usefulness has motivated a search for good inference procedures based on GMM. This article presents a novel method of bootstrapping for GMM based on resampling from the empirical likelihood distribution that imposes the moment restrictions. We show that this approach yields a large-sample improvement and is efficient, and give examples. We also discuss the development of GMM and other recent work on improved inference.
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页码:507 / 517
页数:11
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