A Pretest to Differentiate Between Weak and Nearly-Weak Instrument Asymptotics

We propose a pretest, bootstrap Kolmogorov-Smirnov test, to differentiate between weak and nearly-weak asymptotics. This is based on bootstrapping Wald Continuous Updating Estimator (CUE) based test. Since Wald CUE test has different limits under weak and nearly-weak cases this can be used in a p...

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Main Author: Mehmet Caner
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Econometric Research Association 2011-09-01
Series:International Econometric Review
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Online Access:http://www.era.org.tr/makaleler/11070063.pdf