Exact tests and confidence sets are obtained for general transformations of the coefficients in linear first-order autoregressive models with exogenous variables and i.i.d. disturbances. The tests proposed have known level and are either similar (constant rejection probability under all...

The relative magnitudes are compared of successive terms in a higher-order asymptotic expansion of the bias of the LSDV estimator in dynamic panels. We find that the leading term accounts for the major part of the actual bias in small samples. This implies that bias correction procedures can be...

By combining two alternative formulations of a test statistic with two alternative resamplingschemes we obtain four different bootstrap tests. In the context of static linear regression modelstwo of these are shown to have serious size and power problems, whereas the remaining two areadequate...