Dealing with endogenous regressors is a central challenge of applied research. The standard solution is to use instrumental variables that are assumed to be uncorrelated with unobservables. We instead allow the instrumental variable to be correlated with the error term, but we assume the correlation between the instrumental variable and the error term has the same sign as the correlation between the endogenous regressor and the error term and that the instrumental variable is less correlated with the error term than is the endogenous regressor. Using these assumptions, we derive analytic bounds for the parameters. We demonstrate that the method can generate useful (set) estimates by using it to estimate demand for differentiated products.
Authors
Aviv Nevo
Research Fellow Duke University
Adam is a Research Fellow associated with the Cemmap at the IFS and UCL and an Associate Professor of Economics at Duke University.
Journal article details
- DOI
- 10.1162/REST_a_00171
- Publisher
- MIT Press
- Issue
- Volume 94, Issue 3, July 2012
Suggested citation
Nevo, A and Rosen, A. (2012). 'Identification with imperfect instruments' 94(3/2012)
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