Generalized Dynamic Panel Data Models with Random Effects for Cross-Section and Time

Geert Mesters and Siem Jan Koopman

No 12-009/4, Tinbergen Institute Discussion Papers from Tinbergen Institute

Abstract: This paper resulted in a publication in the Journal of Econometrics (2014). Volume 180, pages 127-140.

An exact maximum likelihood method is developed for the estimation of parameters in a nonlinear non-Gaussian dynamic panel data model with unobserved random individual-specific and time-varying effects. We propose an estimation procedure based on the importance sampling technique. In particular, a sequence of conditional importance densities is derived which integrates out all random effects from the joint distribution of endogenous variables. We disentangle the integration over both the cross-section and the time series dimensions. The estimation method facilitates the flexible modeling of large panels in both dimensions. We evaluate the method in a Monte Carlo study for dynamic panel data models with observations from the Student's t distribution. We finally present an extensive empirical study into the interrelationships between the economic growth figures of countries listed in the Penn World Tables. It is shown that our dynamic panel data model can provide an insightful analysis of common and heterogeneous features in world-wide economic growth.

Keywords: Panel data; Non-Gaussian; Importance sampling; Random effects; Student's t; Economic growth (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C33 C51 F44 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012-02-06, Revised 2014-03-18
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