Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/79343 
Year of Publication: 
2005
Series/Report no.: 
cemmap working paper No. CWP18/05
Publisher: 
Centre for Microdata Methods and Practice (cemmap), London
Abstract: 
Using many moment conditions can improve efficiency but makes the usual GMM inferences inaccurate. Two step GMM is biased. Generalized empirical likelihood (GEL) has smaller bias but the usual standard errors are too small. In this paper we use alternative asymptotics, based on many weak moment conditions, that addresses this problem. This asymptotics leads to improved approximations in overidentified models where the variance of the derivative of the moment conditions is large relative to the squared expected value of the moment conditions and identification is not too weak. We obtain an asymptotic variance for GEL that is larger than the usual one and give a sandwich estimator of it. In Monte Carlo examples we find that this variance estimator leads to a better Gaussian approximation to t-ratios in a range of cases. We also show that Kleibergen (2005) K statistic is valid under these asymptotics. We also compare these results with a jackknife GMM estimator, finding that GEL is asymptotically more efficient under many weak moments.
Subjects: 
GMM , Continuous Updating , Many Moments , Variance Adjustment
JEL: 
C12
C13
C23
Persistent Identifier of the first edition: 
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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