Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 February 2010
ABSTRACT
We calculate higher-order asymptotic biases and mean squared errors (MSE) for a simple model with a sequence of moment conditions. In this setup, generalized empirical likelihood (GEL) and infeasible optimal GMM (OGMM) have the same higher-order biases, with GEL apparently having an MSE that exceeds OGMM's by an additional term of order (M – 1)/N, i.e., the degree of overidentification divided by sample size. In contrast, any two-step GMM estimator has an additional bias relative to OGMM of order (M – 1)/N and an additional MSE of order (M – 1)2/N. Consequently, GEL must be expected to dominate two-step GMM. In our simple model all GEL's have equivalent next higher order behavior because generalized third moments of moment conditions are assumed to be zero; we explore, in further analysis and simulations, the implications of dropping this assumption.
INTRODUCTION
This paper has two parts. In the first part, we calculate higher-order asymptotic biases and mean squared errors (MSE) for a simple model with a sequence of moment conditions. In this setup, generalized empirical likelihood (GEL) and infeasible optimal GMM (OGMM) have the same higher-order biases, with GEL having an MSE that apparently exceeds OGMM's by an additional term of order (M − 1)/N, i.e., the degree of overidentification divided by sample size. In contrast, any two-step GMM estimator has an additional bias relative to OGMM of order (M − 1)/N and an additional MSE of order (M − 1)2/N.
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