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Partially Identified Econometric Models

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 October 2010

P.C.B. Phillips
P.C.B. Phillips
Affiliation:
Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics Yale University
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Abstract

This paper studies a class of models where full identification is not necessarily assumed. We term such models partially identified. It is argued that partially identified systems are of practical importance since empirical investigators frequently proceed under conditions that are best described as apparent identification. One objective of the paper is to explore the properties of conventional statistical procedures in the context of identification failure. Our analysis concentrates on two major types of partially identified model: the classic simultaneous equations model under rank condition failures; and time series spurious regressions. Both types serve to illustrate the extensions that are needed to conventional asymptotic theory if the theory is to accommodate partially identified systems. In many of the cases studied, the limit distributions fall within the class of compound normal distributions. They are simply represented as covariance matrix or scalar mixtures of normals. This includes time series spurious regressions, where representations in terms of functionals of vector Brownian motion are more conventional in recent research following earlier work by the author.

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Econometric Theory , Volume 5 , Issue 2 , August 1989 , pp. 181 - 240
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1989

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