Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/246807 
Year of Publication: 
2021
Series/Report no.: 
cemmap working paper No. CWP39/21
Publisher: 
Centre for Microdata Methods and Practice (cemmap), London
Abstract: 
This paper studies linear panel regression models in which the unobserved error term is an unknown smooth function of two-way unobserved fixed effects. In standard additive or interactive fixed effect models the individual specific and time specific effects are assumed to enter with a known functional form (additive or multiplicative), while we allow for this functional form to be more general and unknown. We discuss two different estimation approaches that allow consistent estimation of the regression parameters in this setting as the number of individuals and the number of time periods grow to infinity. The first approach uses the interactive fixed effect estimator in Bai (2009), which is still applicable here, as long as the number of factors in the estimation grows asymptotically. The second approach first discretizes the two-way unobserved heterogeneity (similar to what Bonhomme, Lamadon and Manresa 2021 are doing for one-way heterogeneity) and then estimates a simple linear fixed effect model with additive two-way grouped fixed effects. For both estimation methods we obtain asymptotic convergence results, perform Monte Carlo simulations, and employ the estimators in an empirical application to UK house price data.
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