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Nonlinear and nonseparable structural functions in regression discontinuity designs with a continuous treatment 连续处理回归不连续设计中的非线性和不可分离结构功能
IF 6.3 3区 经济学
Journal of Econometrics Pub Date : 2024-05-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.jeconom.2024.105784
Haitian Xie
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A vector monotonicity assumption for multiple instruments 多种工具的向量单调性假设
IF 6.3 3区 经济学
Journal of Econometrics Pub Date : 2024-04-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.jeconom.2024.105735
Leonard Goff
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The law of large numbers for large stable matchings 大型稳定匹配的大数定律
IF 6.3 3区 经济学
Journal of Econometrics Pub Date : 2024-04-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.jeconom.2024.105742
Jacob Schwartz , Kyungchul Song
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Estimation and inference for high dimensional factor model with regime switching 具有制度转换的高维因子模型的估计和推论
IF 6.3 3区 经济学
Journal of Econometrics Pub Date : 2024-04-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.jeconom.2024.105752
Giovanni Urga , Fa Wang
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The local to unity dynamic Tobit model 局部到统一动态托比特模型
IF 6.3 3区 经济学
Journal of Econometrics Pub Date : 2024-04-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.jeconom.2024.105764
Anna Bykhovskaya , James A. Duffy
{"title":"The local to unity dynamic Tobit model","authors":"Anna Bykhovskaya ,&nbsp;James A. Duffy","doi":"10.1016/j.jeconom.2024.105764","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jeconom.2024.105764","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This paper considers highly persistent time series that are subject to nonlinearities in the form of censoring or an occasionally binding constraint, such as are regularly encountered in macroeconomics. A tractable candidate model for such series is the dynamic Tobit with a root local to unity. We show that this model generates a process that converges weakly to a non-standard limiting process, that is constrained (regulated) to be positive. Surprisingly, despite the presence of censoring, the OLS estimators of the model parameters are consistent. We show that this allows OLS-based inferences to be drawn on the overall persistence of the process (as measured by the sum of the autoregressive coefficients), and for the null of a unit root to be tested in the presence of censoring. Our simulations illustrate that the conventional ADF test substantially over-rejects when the data is generated by a dynamic Tobit with a unit root, whereas our proposed test is correctly sized. We provide an application of our methods to testing for a unit root in the Swiss franc/euro exchange rate, during a period when this was subject to an occasionally binding lower bound.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":15629,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Econometrics","volume":"241 2","pages":"Article 105764"},"PeriodicalIF":6.3,"publicationDate":"2024-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140901880","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Covariate adjustment in experiments with matched pairs 配对实验中的协变量调整
IF 6.3 3区 经济学
Journal of Econometrics Pub Date : 2024-04-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.jeconom.2024.105740
Yuehao Bai , Liang Jiang , Joseph P. Romano , Azeem M. Shaikh , Yichong Zhang
{"title":"Covariate adjustment in experiments with matched pairs","authors":"Yuehao Bai ,&nbsp;Liang Jiang ,&nbsp;Joseph P. Romano ,&nbsp;Azeem M. Shaikh ,&nbsp;Yichong Zhang","doi":"10.1016/j.jeconom.2024.105740","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jeconom.2024.105740","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This paper studies inference for the average treatment effect (ATE) in experiments in which treatment status is determined according to “matched pairs” and it is additionally desired to adjust for observed, baseline covariates to gain further precision. By a “matched pairs” design, we mean that units are sampled i.i.d. from the population of interest, paired according to observed, baseline covariates, and finally, within each pair, one unit is selected at random for treatment. Importantly, we presume that not all observed, baseline covariates are used in determining treatment assignment. We study a broad class of estimators based on a “doubly robust” moment condition that permits us to study estimators with both finite-dimensional and high-dimensional forms of covariate adjustment. We find that estimators with finite-dimensional, linear adjustments need not lead to improvements in precision relative to the unadjusted difference-in-means estimator. This phenomenon persists even if the adjustments interact with treatment; in fact, doing so leads to no changes in precision. However, gains in precision can be ensured by including fixed effects for each of the pairs. Indeed, we show that this adjustment leads to the minimum asymptotic variance of the corresponding ATE estimator among all finite-dimensional, linear adjustments. We additionally study an estimator with a regularized adjustment, which can accommodate high-dimensional covariates. We show that this estimator leads to improvements in precision relative to the unadjusted difference-in-means estimator and also provides conditions under which it leads to the “optimal” nonparametric, covariate adjustment. A simulation study confirms the practical relevance of our theoretical analysis, and the methods are employed to reanalyze data from an experiment using a “matched pairs” design to study the effect of macroinsurance on microenterprise.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":15629,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Econometrics","volume":"241 1","pages":"Article 105740"},"PeriodicalIF":6.3,"publicationDate":"2024-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140621415","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Parametric risk-neutral density estimation via finite lognormal-Weibull mixtures 通过有限对数正态-威布尔混合物进行参数风险中性密度估计
IF 6.3 3区 经济学
Journal of Econometrics Pub Date : 2024-04-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.jeconom.2024.105748
Yifan Li , Ingmar Nolte , Manh Cuong Pham
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Robust inference of panel data models with interactive fixed effects under long memory: A frequency domain approach 长记忆下具有交互固定效应的面板数据模型的稳健推断:频域方法
IF 6.3 3区 经济学
Journal of Econometrics Pub Date : 2024-04-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.jeconom.2024.105761
Shuyao Ke , Peter C.B. Phillips , Liangjun Su
{"title":"Robust inference of panel data models with interactive fixed effects under long memory: A frequency domain approach","authors":"Shuyao Ke ,&nbsp;Peter C.B. Phillips ,&nbsp;Liangjun Su","doi":"10.1016/j.jeconom.2024.105761","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jeconom.2024.105761","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This paper studies a linear panel data model with interactive fixed effects wherein regressors, factors and idiosyncratic error terms are all stationary but with potential long memory. The setup involves a new formulation of panel data models, where weakly dependent regressors, factors and idiosyncratic errors are embedded as a special case. Standard methods based on principal component decomposition and least squares estimation, as in Bai (2009), are found to be biased and distorted in inference. To cope with this failure and to provide a simple implementable estimation procedure, a frequency domain least squares estimation is proposed. The limit distribution of the frequency domain estimator is established and a self-normalized approach to inference without the need for plug-in estimation of memory parameters is developed. Simulations show that the frequency domain estimator performs robustly under short memory and outperforms the time domain estimator when long range dependence is present. An empirical illustration is provided, examining the long-run relationship between stock returns and realized volatility.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":15629,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Econometrics","volume":"241 2","pages":"Article 105761"},"PeriodicalIF":6.3,"publicationDate":"2024-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140818618","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Estimation and inference of seller’s expected revenue in first-price auctions 第一价格拍卖中卖方预期收益的估计和推论
IF 6.3 3区 经济学
Journal of Econometrics Pub Date : 2024-04-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.jeconom.2024.105734
Federico Zincenko
{"title":"Estimation and inference of seller’s expected revenue in first-price auctions","authors":"Federico Zincenko","doi":"10.1016/j.jeconom.2024.105734","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jeconom.2024.105734","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>I propose an estimator for the seller’s expected revenue function in a first-price sealed-bid auction with independent private values and symmetric bidders, who can exhibit constant relative risk aversion and bid according to the Bayesian Nash equilibrium. I build the proposed estimator from pseudo-private values, which can be estimated from observed bids, and show that it is pointwise and uniformly consistent: the corresponding optimal nonparametric rates of convergence can be achieved. Then I construct asymptotically valid confidence intervals and uniform confidence bands. Suggestions for critical values are based on first-order asymptotics, as well as on the bootstrap method.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":15629,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Econometrics","volume":"241 1","pages":"Article 105734"},"PeriodicalIF":6.3,"publicationDate":"2024-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140605771","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Identifiability and estimation of possibly non-invertible SVARMA Models: The normalised canonical WHF parametrisation 可能不可逆 SVARMA 模型的可识别性和估计:归一化典范 WHF 参数化
IF 6.3 3区 经济学
Journal of Econometrics Pub Date : 2024-04-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.jeconom.2024.105766
Bernd Funovits
{"title":"Identifiability and estimation of possibly non-invertible SVARMA Models: The normalised canonical WHF parametrisation","authors":"Bernd Funovits","doi":"10.1016/j.jeconom.2024.105766","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jeconom.2024.105766","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This article focuses on the parametrisation, identifiability, and (quasi-) maximum likelihood (QML) estimation of possibly non-invertible structural vector autoregressive moving average (SVARMA) models. SVAR models are routinely adopted due to their well-known implementation strategy. However, for various economic and statistical reasons, multivariate SVARMA settings are often more suitable. These settings introduce complexity in the analysis, primarily due to the presence of the moving average (MA) polynomial. We propose a novel representation of the MA polynomial matrix using the Wiener–Hopf factorization (WHF). A significant advantage of the WHF is its ability to handle possible non-invertibility and thus models with informational asymmetry between economic agents and outside observers. Since solutions of Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium (DSGE) models often involve this informational asymmetry, SVARMA models in WHF parametrisation can be considered data-driven alternatives to DSGE models and used for their evaluation. Furthermore, we provide low-level conditions for the asymptotic normality of the (Q)ML estimator and analytic expressions for the score and information matrix. As application, we estimate the Blanchard and Quah model, and compare our results and implied impulse response function with the ones in the SVAR model by Blanchard and Quah and a non-invertible SVARMA model by Gouriéroux and co-authors. Importantly, we have implemented this novel method in a well-documented R-package, making it readily accessible for researchers and practitioners.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":15629,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Econometrics","volume":"241 2","pages":"Article 105766"},"PeriodicalIF":6.3,"publicationDate":"2024-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S030440762400112X/pdfft?md5=31d8eea116ae38418b22b6b324439bd8&pid=1-s2.0-S030440762400112X-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141068097","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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