Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/86682 
Year of Publication: 
2009
Series/Report no.: 
Tinbergen Institute Discussion Paper No. 09-086/4
Publisher: 
Tinbergen Institute, Amsterdam and Rotterdam
Abstract: 
The system GMM estimator for dynamic panel data models combines moment conditions for the model in first differences with moment conditions for the model in levels. It has been shown to improve on the GMM estimator in the first differenced model in terms of bias and root mean squared error. However, we show in this paper that in the covariance stationary panel data AR(1) model the expected values of the concentration parameters in the differenced and levels equations for the cross section at time t are the same when the variances of the individual heterogeneity and idiosyncratic errors are the same. This indicates a weak instrument problem also for the equation in levels. We show that the 2SLS biases relative to that of the OLS biases are then similar for the equations in differences and levels, as are the size distortions of the Wald tests. These results are shown to extend to the panel data GMM estimators.
Subjects: 
Dynamic Panel Data
System GMM
Weak Instruments
JEL: 
C12
C13
C23
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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