Testing overidentifying restrictions with many instruments and heteroscedasticity using regularised jackknife IV

B-Tier
Journal: The Econometrics Journal
Year: 2022
Volume: 25
Issue: 1
Pages: 71-97

Authors (2)

Marine Carrasco (Université de Montréal) Mohamed Doukali (not in RePEc)

Score contribution per author:

1.009 = (α=2.02 / 2 authors) × 1.0x B-tier

α: calibrated so average coauthorship-adjusted count equals average raw count

Abstract

SummaryThis paper proposes a new overidentifying restrictions test in a linear model when the number of instruments (possibly weak) may be smaller or larger than the sample size n or even infinite in a heteroscedastic framework. The proposed J test combines two techniques: the jackknife method and the regularisation technique which consists in stabilising the projection matrix. We theoretically show that our new test achieves the asymptotically correct size in the presence of many instruments. The simulation results demonstrate that our modified J statistic test has better empirical properties in small samples than existing J tests. We also propose a regularised F-test to assess the strength of the instruments, which is robust to heteroscedasticity and many instruments.

Technical Details

RePEc Handle
repec:oup:emjrnl:v:25:y:2022:i:1:p:71-97
Journal Field
Econometrics
Author Count
2
Added to Database
2026-01-25