Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/272846 
Year of Publication: 
2022
Series/Report no.: 
Staff Report No. 1033
Publisher: 
Federal Reserve Bank of New York, New York, NY
Abstract: 
We propose a new, computationally-efficient way to approximate the "grouped fixed-effects" (GFE) estimator of Bonhomme and Manresa (2015), which estimates grouped patterns of unobserved heterogeneity. To do so, we generalize the fuzzy C-means objective to regression settings. As the regularization parameter m approaches 1, the fuzzy clustering objective converges to the GFE objective; moreover, we recast this objective as a standard Generalized Method of Moments problem. We replicate the empirical results of Bonhomme and Manresa (2015) and show that our estimator delivers almost identical estimates. In simulations, we show that our approach delivers improvements in terms of bias, classification accuracy, and computational speed.
Subjects: 
clustering
unobserved heterogeneity
panel data
JEL: 
C23
C63
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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