Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/79262 
Year of Publication: 
2004
Series/Report no.: 
cemmap working paper No. CWP12/04
Publisher: 
Centre for Microdata Methods and Practice (cemmap), London
Abstract: 
In a number of semiparametric models, smoothing seems necessary in order to obtain estimates of the parametric component which are asymptotically normal and converge at parametric rate. However, smoothing can inflate the error in the normal approximation, so that refined approximations are of interest, especially in sample sizes that are not enormous. We show that a bootstrap distribution achieves a valid Edgeworth correction in case of density-weighted averaged derivative estimates of semiparametric index models. Approaches to bias-reduction are discussed. We also develop a higher order expansion, to show that the bootstrap achieves a further reduction in size distortion in case of two-sided testing. The finite sample performance of the methods is investigated by means of Monte Carlo simulations froma Tobit model.
Subjects: 
Bootstrap , Edgeworth correction , Semiparametric averaged derivatives
JEL: 
C23
Persistent Identifier of the first edition: 
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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