Estimation with overidentifying inequality moment conditions

Hyungsik Moon () and Frank Schorfheide

Journal of Econometrics, 2009, vol. 153, issue 2, 136-154

Abstract: This paper derives limit distributions of empirical likelihood estimators for models in which inequality moment conditions provide overidentifying information. We show that the use of this information leads to a reduction of the asymptotic mean-squared estimation error and propose asymptotically uniformly valid tests and confidence sets for the parameters of interest. While inequality moment conditions arise in many important economic models, we use a dynamic macroeconomic model as a data generating process and illustrate our methods with instrumental variable estimators of monetary policy rules. The results obtained in this paper extend to conventional GMM estimators.

Keywords: Empirical; likelihood; estimation; Generalized; method; of; moments; Inequality; moment; conditions; Instrumental; variable; estimation; Monetary; policy; rules (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
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