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Erscheinungsjahr: 
2024
Schriftenreihe/Nr.: 
cemmap working paper No. CWP18/24
Verlag: 
Centre for Microdata Methods and Practice (cemmap), London
Zusammenfassung: 
Empirical research typically involves a robustness-efficiency tradeoff. A researcher seeking to estimate a scalar parameter can invoke strong assumptions to motivate a restricted estimator that is precise but may be heavily biased, or they can relax some of these assumptions to motivate a more robust, but variable, unrestricted estimator. When a bound on the bias of the restricted estimator is available, it is optimal to shrink the unrestricted estimator towards the restricted estimator. For settings where a bound on the bias of the restricted estimator is unknown, we propose adaptive estimators that minimize the percentage increase in worst case risk relative to an oracle that knows the bound. We show that adaptive estimators solve a weighted convex minimax problem and provide lookup tables facilitating their rapid computation. Revisiting some well known empirical studies where questions of model specification arise, we examine the advantages of adapting to-rather than testing for-misspecification.
Schlagwörter: 
Adaptive estimation
Minimax procedures
Specification testing
Shrinkage
Robustness
JEL: 
C13
C18
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