Uniform Inference for Parameters Identified by Conditional Quantile Restrictions

Xuqing Lin and Xiaojun Song

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Abstract: Many structural and dynamic economic models imply that key parameters are identified by conditional quantile restrictions. Building on the exponential-weighting approach of Bierens (1990) and recent advances in penalized maximum statistics for conditional moment restrictions (Chen et al., 2025), we develop a unified inference framework for such parameters. We propose an adaptive $\ell_1$-penalized supremum statistic that transforms the conditional restriction into a continuum of unconditional moment conditions and aggregates evidence across quantile indices. The penalty regularizes the maximization over the weighting direction. Under the stated uniformity conditions, the known-parameter adaptive selector has no lower maximin local power than the unpenalized test and yields a strict maximin local-power gain whenever some positive candidate penalty has a strictly larger population maximin criterion than the zero penalty. We extend the theory to settings with pre-estimated nuisance parameters, characterizing the additional terms induced by the plug-in step in the limiting process. We derive an analytically corrected variance estimator that accounts for plug-in estimation uncertainty and establish the validity of a Gaussian multiplier bootstrap under the null and sequences of local alternatives. Monte Carlo simulations show that the proposed CvM-KS aggregation scheme has rejection rates relatively close to nominal size under pre-estimation in the linear design and approaches the nominal level in nonlinear designs as the sample size grows. The reported power comparisons between the adaptive and unpenalized procedures are design-specific, with higher empirical rejection frequencies for the adaptive procedure along some directions.

Date: 2026-09, Revised 2026-09
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