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This paper presents a new approach to estimation and inference in panel data models with unobserved common factors possibly correlated with exogenously given individual-specific regressors and/or the observed common effects. The basic idea behind the proposed estimation procedure is to filter...
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We employ a semi-parametric estimation approach to analyse observed and unobserved heterogeneity in the value of … heterogeneity in preferences in a flexible way, meaning that we do not put any structure on how individual characteristics (such as …, we illustrate the estimation approach and find that there is substantial heterogeneity in the value of savings in travel …
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This note describes the matching procedure used to construct panel data sets from the 1987, 1989 and 1991 Hungarian Household Budget servey samples.
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We propose a quantification of the p-p plot that assigns equal weight to all distances between the respective distributions: the surface between the p-p plot and the diagonal. This surface is labelled the Harmonic Weighted Mass (HWM) index. We introduce the diagonal-deviation (d-d) plot that...
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This discussion paper resulted in a publication in the <I>Journal of Economic Dynamics & Control</I>, 34(9), 1596-1609.<P> We introduce a statistical test for comparing the predictive accuracy of competing copula specifications in multivariate density forecasts, based on the Kullback-Leibler Information...</p></i>
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This paper develops maximum score estimation of preference parameters in the binary choice model under uncertainty in which the decision rule is affected by conditional expectations. The preference parameters are estimated in two stages: we estimate conditional expectations nonparametrically in...
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The generalized method of moments estimator may be substantially biased in finite samples, especially so when there are large numbers of unconditional moment conditions. This paper develops a class of first order equivalent semi-parametric efficient estimators and tests for conditional moment...
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<p>This paper is concerned with inference about a function <i>g</i> that is identified by a conditional quantile restriction involving instrumental variables. The paper presents a test of the hypothesis that <i>g</i> belongs to a finite-dimensional parametric family against a nonparametric alternative. The test...</p>
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This paper describes a simple extension of popular tests of equality of hazard rates in a two-sample or k-sample setup to a situation where the covariate under study is continuous. In other words, we test the null hypothesis that the hazard does not depend on the value of the covariate against...
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We develop a practical and novel method for inference on intersection bounds, namely bounds defined by either the infimum or supremum of a parametric or nonparametric function, or equivalently, the value of a linear programming problem with a potentially infinite constraint set. We show that...
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