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EFFICIENT METHOD OF MOMENTS IN MISSPECIFIED I.I.D. MODELS

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 June 2004

Víctor Aguirre-Torres  and
Manuel Domínguez Toribio
Víctor Aguirre-Torres
Affiliation:
Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM)
Manuel Domínguez Toribio
Affiliation:
Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM)
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Abstract

The paper presents the asymptotic theory of the efficient method of moments when the model of interest is not correctly specified. The paper assumes a sequence of independent and identically distributed observations and a global misspecification. It is found that the limiting distribution of the estimator is still asymptotically normal, but it suffers a strong impact in the covariance matrix. A consistent estimator of this covariance matrix is provided. The large sample distribution on the estimated moment function is also obtained. These results are used to discuss the situation when the moment conditions hold but the model is misspecified. It also is shown that the overidentifying restrictions test has asymptotic power one whenever the limit moment function is different from zero. It is also proved that the bootstrap distributions converge almost surely to the previously mentioned distributions and hence they could be used as an alternative to draw inferences under misspecification. Interestingly, it is also shown that bootstrap can be reliably applied even if the number of bootstrap replications is very small.The authors express their gratitude to Professor A.R. Gallant for his support and for helpful discussions about this topic. They also thank Professor Donald Andrews for his revision and for the suggestion to read the work by Hall and Inoue (2003). They thank Hall and Inoue for sending them their technical report. Finally the authors thank two anonymous referees for their helpful comments, which led to a significant improvement of the paper. The views expressed in this paper are our sole responsibility. Víctor Aguirre-Torres acknowledges partial support from the Asociación Mexicana de la Cultura A.C. Manuel A. Domínguez acknowledges funding from CONACYT, research project J38076-D, and partial support from Asociación Mexicana de la Cultura A.C.

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Research Article
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Econometric Theory , Volume 20 , Issue 3 , June 2004 , pp. 513 - 534
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© 2004 Cambridge University Press

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