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choices are partially unavailable, and dynamic discrete games. We propose a sieve maximum likelihood estimator for primitives …
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This paper develops identification and estimation methods for dynamic structural models when agents' actions are unobserved by econometricians. We provide conditions under which choice probabilities and latent state transition rules are nonparametrically identified with a continuous state...
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In this paper, we investigate what can be learned about average counterfactual outcomes when it is assumed that treatment response functions are smooth. The smoothness conditions in this paper amount to assuming that the differences in average counterfactual outcomes are bounded under different...
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A breakdown frontier is the boundary between the set of assumptions which lead to a specific conclusion and those which do not. In a potential outcomes model with a binary treatment, we consider two conclusions: First, that ATE is at least a specific value (e.g., nonnegative) and second that the...
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The multinomial logit model with random coefficients is widely used in applied research. This paper is concerned with estimating a random coefficients logit model in which the distribution of each coefficient is characterized by finitely many parameters. Some of these parameters may be zero. The...
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covariance matrix. If the null hypothesis is true then the proposed test has the same distribution as the existing ones in large … size increases in several important applications, including testing for endogeneity in the linear model. …
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parameter can invoke strong assumptions to motivate a restricted estimator that is precise but may be heavily biased, or they … can relax some of these assumptions to motivate a more robust, but variable, unrestricted estimator. When a bound on the … bias of the restricted estimator is available, it is optimal to shrink the unrestricted estimator towards the restricted …
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merely weaken the superefficiency condition and with assumptions that remove it altogether. Imbens and Manski’s confidence …
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Instrumental variable models for discrete outcomes are set, not point, identifying. The paper characterises identi.ed sets of structural functions when endogenous variables are discrete. Identi.ed sets are unions of large numbers of convex sets and may not be convex nor even connected. Each of...
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In this paper we introduce various set inference problems as they appear in finance and propose practical and powerful inferential tools. Our tools will be applicable to any problem where the set of interest solves a system of smooth estimable inequalities, though we will particularly focus on...
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