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Type Working Paper
Scope Discipline-based scholarship
Title Leverage and Covariance Matrix Estimation in Finite-Sample IV Regressions
Organization Unit
Authors
  • Andreas Steinhauer
  • Tobias Wuergler
Language
  • English
Institution University of Zurich
Series Name Working paper series / Institute for Empirical Research in Economics
Number No. 521
ISSN 1424-0459
Date 2010
Abstract Text This paper develops basic algebraic concepts for instrumental variables (IV) regressions which are used to derive the leverage and influence of observations on the 2SLS estimate and compute alternative heteroskedasticity-consistent (HC1, HC2 and HC3) estimators for the 2SLS covariance matrix in a finite-sample context. Monte Carlo simulations and applications to growth regressions are used to evaluate the performance of these estimators. The results support the use of HC3 instead of White’s robust standard errors in small and unbalanced data sets. The leverage and influence of observations can be examined with the various measures derived in the paper
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