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The Hausman pretest estimator

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  • Chmelarova, Viera
  • Hill, R. Carter

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In a Monte Carlo experiment we show that using a small probability of Type I error may lead to reduced pretest estimator MSE when a Hausman pretest is used to choose between least squares and instrumental variables estimators.

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Article provided by Elsevier in its journal Economics Letters.

Volume (Year): 108 (2010)
Issue (Month): 1 (July)
Pages: 96-99

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Handle: RePEc:eee:ecolet:v:108:y:2010:i:1:p:96-99
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Keywords: Pretest estimator Hausman test Endogeneity;

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Cited by:

  1. Kiviet, Jan F. & Pleus, Milan, 2017. "The performance of tests on endogeneity of subsets of explanatory variables scanned by simulation," Econometrics and Statistics, Elsevier, vol. 2(C), pages 1-21.
  2. Firmin DOKO TCHATOKA & Jean-Marie DUFOUR, 2016. "Exogeneity Tests, Incomplete Models, Weak Identification and Non-Gaussian Distributions : Invariance and Finite-Sample Distributional Theory," Cahiers de recherche 14-2016, Centre interuniversitaire de recherche en économie quantitative, CIREQ.
  3. Firmin Doko Tchatoka & Jean-Marie Dufour, 2016. "Exogeneity tests, weak identification, incomplete models and non-Gaussian distributions: Invariance and finite-sample distributional theory," School of Economics Working Papers 2016-01, University of Adelaide, School of Economics.
  4. Doko Tchatoka, Firmin, 2012. "Specification tests with weak and invalid instruments," Working Papers 15063, University of Tasmania, Tasmanian School of Business and Economics, revised 26 Jun 2012.
  5. Firmin Doko Tchatoka & Jean‐Marie Dufour, 2014. "Identification‐robust inference for endogeneity parameters in linear structural models," Econometrics Journal, Royal Economic Society, vol. 17(1), pages 165-187, 02.
  6. Tae-Hwan Kim & Christophe Muller, 2017. "A Robust Test of Exogeneity Based on Quantile Regressions," AMSE Working Papers 1716, Aix-Marseille School of Economics, Marseille, France.
  7. Wang, Yun & Zhang, Yonghui & Zhou, Qiankun, 2016. "A Stein-like estimator for linear panel data models," Economics Letters, Elsevier, vol. 141(C), pages 156-161.

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