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st: RE: Re: xtabond2 questions: too many instruments / singular covariance matrix


From   DE SOUZA Eric <[email protected]>
To   <[email protected]>
Subject   st: RE: Re: xtabond2 questions: too many instruments / singular covariance matrix
Date   Sat, 2 May 2009 17:18:21 +0200

A discussion paper version can be found here:
http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/11619

And more specifically on the subject of too many instruments:
http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/14256 

Both are by David Roodman, the author of xtabond2

Eric de Souza
College of Europe
Brugge (Bruges), Belgium
http://www.coleurope.eu


-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Martin Weiss
Sent: 02 May 2009 17:11
To: [email protected]
Subject: st: Re: xtabond2 questions: too many instruments / singular
covariance matrix

<>

There was a comprehensive introduction to this command recently in the
SJ
http://www.stata-journal.com/article.html?article=st0159
which may be worth reading for you...


HTH
Martin
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----- Original Message -----
From: "susie karnes" <[email protected]>
To: "statalist" <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, May 02, 2009 4:58 PM
Subject: st: xtabond2 questions: too many instruments / singular
covariance matrix


> Dear statalisters:
>
> I am getting the following warnings when I run a system GMM with
xtabond2:
>
> Warning: Number of instruments may be large relative to number of 
> observations.
> Warning: Two-step estimated covariance matrix of moments is singular.
> Using a generalized inverse to calculate optimal weighting matrix for 
> two-step estimation.
> Difference-in-Sargan/Hansen statistics may be negative.
>
> Is it a concern that the matrix is singular? Is this because of the 
> relatively large number of instruments here?
> What can be done to resolve the issue? Limiting the number of 
> instruments and collapsing?
>
> Also, with the use of system GMM, is there a test that should be run 
> that evaluates the stationarity of the series?
>
> Many thanks for any advice that you can offer.
> Best regards,
> Susan
>
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