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A WARP-SPEED METHOD FOR CONDUCTING MONTE CARLO EXPERIMENTS INVOLVING BOOTSTRAP ESTIMATORS

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 January 2013

Raffaella Giacomini ,
Dimitris N. Politis  and
Halbert White
Raffaella Giacomini*
Affiliation:
University College London/CeMMAP
Dimitris N. Politis
Affiliation:
University of California, San Diego
Halbert White
Affiliation:
University of California, San Diego
*
*Address correspondence to Raffaella Giacomini, University College London, Department of Economics, Gower Street, London WC1E6BT, UK; e-mail: [email protected].
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Abstract

We analyze fast procedures for conducting Monte Carlo experiments involving bootstrap estimators, providing formal results establishing the properties of these methods under general conditions.

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Econometric Theory , Volume 29 , Issue 3 , June 2013 , pp. 567 - 589
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2013 

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Footnotes

This paper is dedicated to the memory of Halbert White, inspiring mentor, friend and colleague, master econometrician, and jazz musician. He was a true scholar and an exceptional human being. Raffaella Giacomini gratefully acknowledges financial support from the Economic and Social Research Council through the ESRC Centre for Microdata Methods and Practice grant RES-589-28-0001. Dimitris Politis gratefully acknowledges partial support from NSF Grant DMS-10-07513.

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