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On The Interpretation of Instrumental Variables in the Presence of Specification Errors: A Causal Comment

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  • Burkhard Raunig

    (Economic Studies Division, Central Bank of Austria, Otto-Wagner-Platz 3, Vienna 1090, Austria
    The views expressed in this paper do not necessarily reflect those of the Central Bank of Austria or the Eurosystem.)

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Swamy et al. (2015) argue that valid instruments cannot exist when a structural model is misspecified. This note shows that this is not true in general. In simple examples valid instruments can exist and can help to estimate parameters of interest.

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  • Burkhard Raunig, 2017. "On The Interpretation of Instrumental Variables in the Presence of Specification Errors: A Causal Comment," Econometrics, MDPI, vol. 5(3), pages 1-6, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:gam:jecnmx:v:5:y:2017:i:3:p:31-:d:105094
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    1. P.A.V.B. Swamy & George S. Tavlas & Stephen G. Hall, 2015. "On the Interpretation of Instrumental Variables in the Presence of Specification Errors," Econometrics, MDPI, vol. 3(1), pages 1-10, January.
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