On the Nonparametric Identification of Nonlinear Simultaneous Equations Models: Comments on B. Brown (1983) and Roehrig (1988)

C. Lanier Benkard and Steven Berry ()
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Research Papers from Stanford University, Graduate School of Business

Abstract: This note revisits the identification theorems of B. Brown (1983) and Roehrig (1988). We describe an error in the proofs of the main identification theorems in these papers, and provide an important counterexample to the theorems on the identification of the reduced form. Specifically, the reduced form of a nonseparable simultaneous equations model is not identified even under the assumptions of these papers. We provide conditions under which the reduced form is identified and is recoverable using the distribution of the endogenous variables conditional on the exogenous variables. However, these conditions place substantial limitations on the structural model. We conclude the note with a conjecture that it may be possible to use classical exclusion restrictions to recover some of the key implications of the theorems in more general settings.

Date: 2006-04
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