A Shrinkage Instrumental Variable Estimator for Large Datasets

Andrea Carriero, George Kapetanios and Massimiliano Marcellino

No 626, Working Papers from Queen Mary University of London, School of Economics and Finance

Abstract: This paper proposes and discusses an instrumental variable estimator that can be of particular relevance when many instruments are available. Intuition and recent work (see, e.g., Hahn (2002)) suggest that parsimonious devices used in the construction of the final instruments, may provide effective estimation strategies. Shrinkage is a well known approach that promotes parsimony. We consider a new shrinkage 2SLS estimator. We derive a consistency result for this estimator under general conditions, and via Monte Carlo simulation show that this estimator has good potential for inference in small samples.

Keywords: Instrumental variable estimation; 2SLS; Shrinkage; Bayesian regression (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C13 C23 C51 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008-03-01
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