Engineering robust instruments for GMM estimation of panel data regression models with errors in variables: a note

François-Éric Racicot ()

Applied Economics, 2015, vol. 47, issue 10, 981-989

Abstract: Econometricians have long recognized the need to account in some way for measurement errors, specification errors and endogeneity to ensure that the ordinary least squares estimator is consistent. This article introduces a new generalized method of moments estimator that relies on robust instruments to estimate panel data regression models containing errors in variables. We show how this GMM approach can be generalized for the panel data framework using higher moments and cumulants as instruments. The new instruments, engineered for greater robustness, are proposed to tackle the pervasive problem of weak instruments.

Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1080/00036846.2014.985373

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