Consistent Pseudo-Maximum Likelihood Estimators and Groups of Transformations

Christian Gourieroux, Alain Monfort and Jean-Michel Zakoian

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Abstract: In a transformation model $\by_t = c [\ba(\bx_t,\bbeta), \bu_t]$, where the errors $\bu_t$ are i.i.d and independent of the explanatory variables $\bx_t$, the parameters can be estimated by a pseudo-maximum likelihood (PML) method, that is, by using a misspecified distribution of the errors, but the PML estimator of $\bbeta$ is in general not consistent. We explain in this paper how to nest the initial model in an identified augmented model with more parameters in order to derive consistent PML estimators of appropriate functions of parameter $\bbeta$.The usefulness of the consistency result is illustrated by examples of systems of nonlinear equations, conditionally heteroskedastic models, stochastic volatility, or models with spatial interactions.

Keywords: Pseudo-Maximum Likelihood; Transformation Model; Identification; Consistency; Stochastic Volatility; Conditional Heteroskedasticity; Spatial Interactions. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C10 C13 C14 C50 C58 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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Journal Article: Consistent Pseudo‐Maximum Likelihood Estimators and Groups of Transformations (2019)
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