A class of model averaging estimators

Shangwei Zhao, Aman Ullah and Xinyu Zhang

Economics Letters, 2018, vol. 162, issue C, 101-106

Abstract: Model averaging aims to a trade-off between efficiency and biases. In this paper, a class of model averaging estimators, g-class, is introduced, and its dominance condition over the ordinary least squares estimator is established. All theoretical findings are verified by simulations.

Keywords: Finite sample size; Mean squared error; Model averaging; Sufficient condition (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C13 C2 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2017.10.023

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