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How Reliable are Bootstrap-based Heteroskedasticity Robust Tests?

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  • Pötscher, Benedikt M.
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We develop theoretical finite-sample results concerning the size of wild bootstrap-based heteroskedasticity robust tests in linear regression models. In particular, these results provide an efficient diagnostic check, which can be used to weed out tests that are unreliable for a given testing problem in the sense that they overreject substantially. This allows us to assess the reliability of a large variety of wild bootstrap-based tests in an extensive numerical study.

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  • Pötscher, Benedikt M. & Preinerstorfer, David, 2020. "How Reliable are Bootstrap-based Heteroskedasticity Robust Tests?," MPRA Paper 100234, University Library of Munich, Germany.
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    wild bootstrap-based heteroskedasticity robust tests; size distortions;

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    • C12 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Econometric and Statistical Methods and Methodology: General - - - Hypothesis Testing: General
    • C2 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Single Equation Models; Single Variables

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