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Title: A Linear Estimator for Factor-Augmented Fixed-T Panels with Endogenous Regressors
Authors: Juodis, A
Sarafidis, V
Keywords: common factors;fixed T consistency;moment conditions;panel data;urban water management
Issue Date: 1-Jul-2020
Publisher: Routledge (Taylor & Francis Group) on behalf of the American Statistical Association
Citation: Juodis, A. and Sarafidis, V. (2022) 'A Linear Estimator for Factor-Augmented Fixed-T Panels with Endogenous Regressors', Journal of business & economic statistics : a publication of the American Statistical Association, 2020, 40 (1), pp. 1 - 15. doi: 10.1080/07350015.2020.1766469.
Abstract: Copyright © 2020 The Authors.. A novel method-of-moments approach is proposed for the estimation of factor-augmented panel data models with endogenous regressors when T is fixed. The underlying methodology involves approximating the unobserved common factors using observed factor proxies. The resulting moment conditions are linear in the parameters. The proposed approach addresses several issues which arise with existing nonlinear estimators that are available in fixed T panels, such as local minima-related problems, a sensitivity to particular normalization schemes, and a potential lack of global identification. We apply our approach to a large panel of households and estimate the price elasticity of urban water demand. A simulation study confirms that our approach performs well in finite samples.
Description: Supplementary Materials: The supplementary appendix to this article provides additional results about the method developed in the present article. In particular, Section S1 analyses several extensions of the model analyzed in the main text, including unbalanced panels, observed factors, and consistency of the GMM estimator under an alternative set of assumptions, in which the factor loadings are treated as a sequence of constants. Section S2 provides descriptive statistics for the data used in the empirical illustration. Section S3 reports additional Monte Carlo results. Finally, Section S4 provides proofs of the main theoretical results put forward in the article. The supplemental materials are available online at: https://ndownloader.figstatic.com/files/22658501 .
URI: https://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/27718
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/07350015.2020.1766469
ISSN: 0735-0015
Other Identifiers: ORCID iD: Vasilis Sarafidis https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6808-3947
Appears in Collections:Dept of Economics and Finance Research Papers

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