<p><p><p><p><p><p><p><p>It is common practice in econometrics to correct for heteroskedasticity.This paper corrects instrumental variables estimators with many instruments for heteroskedasticity.We give heteroskedasticity robust versions of the limited information maximum likelihood (LIML) and Fuller (1977, FULL) estimators; as well as heteroskedasticity consistent standard errors thereof. The estimators are based on removing the own observation terms in the numerator of the LIML variance ratio. We derive asymptotic properties of the estimators under many and many weak instruments setups. Based on a series of Monte Carlo experiments, we find that the estimators perform as well as LIML or FULL under homoskedasticity, and have much lower bias and dispersion under heteroskedasticity, in nearly all cases considered.</p></p></p></p></p></p></p></p>
Authors
Whitney K. Newey
MIT
John Hopkins University
John Chao
Norman Swanson
Working Paper details
- DOI
- 10.1920/wp.cem.2007.2207
- Publisher
- IFS
Suggested citation
Chao, J et al. (2007). Instrumental variable estimation with heteroskedasticity and many instruments. London: IFS. Available at: https://ifs.org.uk/publications/instrumental-variable-estimation-heteroskedasticity-and-many-instruments (accessed: 13 May 2024).
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