Efficient GMM Estimation of Dynamic Panel Data Models Where Large Heterogeneity May Be Present

Kazuhiko Hayakawa

Hi-Stat Discussion Paper Series from Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University

Abstract: This paper addresses the many instruments problem, i.e. (1) the trade-off between the bias and the efficiency of the GMM estimator, and (2) inaccuracy of inference, in dynamic panel data models where unobservable heterogeneity may be large. We find that if we use all the instruments in levels, although the GMM estimator is robust to large heterogeneity, inference is inaccurate. In contrast, if we use the minimum number of instruments in levels in the sense that we use only one instrument for each period, the performance of the GMM estimator is heavily affected by the degree of heterogeneity, that is, both the asymptotic bias and the variance are proportional to the magnitude of heterogeneity. To address this problem, we propose a new form of instruments that are obtained from the so-called backward orthogonal deviation transformation. The asymptotic analysis shows that the GMM estimator with the minimum number of new instruments has smaller asymptotic bias than the estimators typically used such as the GMM estimator with all instruments in levels, the LIML estimators and the within-groups estimators, while the asymptotic variance of the proposed estimator is equal to the lower bound. Thus both the asymptotic bias and the variance of the proposed estimators become small simultaneously. Simulation results show that our new GMM estimator outperforms the conventional GMM estimator with all instruments in levels in term of the RMSE and in terms of accuracy of inference. An empirical application with Spanish firm data is also provided.

Keywords: Dynamic panel data; many instruments; generalized method of moments estimator; unobservable large heterogeneity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C23 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2006-01
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