Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/64712 
Year of Publication: 
2012
Series/Report no.: 
cemmap working paper No. CWP16/12
Publisher: 
Centre for Microdata Methods and Practice (cemmap), London
Abstract: 
This paper proposes a class of origin-smooth approximators of indicators underlying the sum-of-negative-part statistic for testing multiple inequalities. The need for simulation or bootstrap to obtain test critical values is thereby obviated. A simple procedure is enabled using fixed critical values. The test is shown to have correct asymptotic size in the uniform sense that supremum finite-sample rejection probability over null-restricted data distributions tends asymptotically to nominal signficance level. This applies under weak assumptions allowing for estimator covariance singularity. The test is unbiased for a wide class of local alternatives. A new theorem establishes directions in which the test is locally most powerful. The proposed procedure is compared with predominant existing tests in structure, theory and simulation.
Subjects: 
Test
Multiple inequalities
One-sided hypothesis
Composite null
Binding constraints
Asymptotic exactness
Covariance singularity
Indicator smoothing
JEL: 
C1
C4
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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