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This paper analyzes Branch Rickey's 1954 equation in a regression context. The results for 1934--1953 are consistent with Rickey's conclusions, and the equation holds up well when extended 51 years. Two of Rickey's main points were that on base percentage dominates batting average and that...
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Age effects in baseball are estimated in this paper using a nonlinear fixed-effects regression. The sample consists of all players who have played 10 or more "full-time" years in the major leagues between 1921 and 2004. Quadratic improvement is assumed up to a peak-performance age, which is...
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This paper overviews recent developments in series estimation of stochastic processes and some of their applications in econometrics. Underlying this approach is the idea that a stochastic process may under certain conditions be represented in terms of a set of orthonormal basis functions,...
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It has been know since Phillips and Hansen (1990) that cointegrated systems can be consistently estimated using stochastic trend instruments that are independent of the system variables. A similar phenomenon occurs with deterministically trending instruments. The present work shows that such...
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This paper studies second-order properties of the empirical likelihood overidentifying restriction test to check the validity of moment condition models. We show that the empirical likelihood test is Bartlett correctable and suggest second-order refinement methods for the test based on the...
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This paper studies robustness of bootstrap inference methods under moment conditions. In particular, we compare the uniform weight and implied probability bootstraps by analyzing behaviors of the bootstrap quantiles when outliers take arbitrarily large values, and derive the breakdown points...
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finite sample performance characteristics that dominate other procedures, such as bias corrected least squares, GMM and … system GMM methods. The asymptotic theory holds as long as the cross section (n) or time series (T) sample size is large …
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for the "verify-out-of-sample" case. We show that sieve conditional expectation projection based GMM estimators achieve … mild regularity conditions. Although inverse probability weighting based GMM estimators are also shown to be …
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This paper provides a first order asymptotic theory for generalized method of moments (GMM) estimators when the number … certain regularity conditions, the GMM estimators are shown to converge in probability but not necessarily to the true … parameter, and conditions for consistent GMM estimation are given. A general framework for the GMM limit distribution theory is …
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(GIVE) method and the generalized method of moments (GMM) estimator are developed. In models with both stationary and … nonstationary components, the FM-GIVE and FM-GMM techniques provide efficiency gains over FM-IV in the estimation of the stationary … and GMM estimators with respect to the stationary components. The theory applies even when there is no prior knowledge of …
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