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Re: st: 2 xtabond2 questions


From   Mark Schaffer <[email protected]>
To   [email protected], [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: 2 xtabond2 questions
Date   Wed, 08 Dec 2004 23:27:11 +0000 (GMT)

Ana,

Quoting [email protected]:

> Hi Mark
> 
> Thanks for the quick reply.
> 
> On my question 2)
> Sorry I was unclear. When I say "augmenting the order of the lags", I mean
> starting the lags further back, i.e., the minimum lag length goes up.

Too bad ... that was going to be my first suggestion.

Maybe this is indicative of some sort of dynamic misspecification.  Perhaps
some flavour of time trend would be appropriate?

--Mark

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> Ana,
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> Quoting [email protected]:
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> > Hello
> >
> > I have 2 questions on xtabond2:
> > 1) can the Hansen test of overidentification restrictions shown as
> output
> > from xtabond2 be also referred to as a Sargan test or is it a
> different
> > test?
> 
> Sargan invented the test in the late 50s, before robust covariance
> estimators were around.  Hansen extended it in 82 using the latter. 
> Some
> people call the test statistic a Hansen J stat, others a Sargan
> stat, others
> a Sargan-Hansen stat or a Hansen-Sargan stat.  If you don't want to
> keep
> switching between Sargan for non-robust and Hansen for robust, just
> use one
> of the latter two.
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> > 2) I am estimating a model that repeateadly shows me evidence of
> 2nd order
> > serial correlation in the residuals which invalidates the whole
> Blundell
> > Bond estimation strategy. I have done many trials augmenting the
> order of
> > the lags used as IV but still get the same problem. Any
> suggestions?
> 
> When you say "augmenting the order of the lags", do you mean
> extending them
> further backwards in time, i.e., the maximum lag length goes up?  Or
> do you
> mean that you start the lags further back, i.e., the minimum lag
> length goes up?
> 
> --Mark
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> > Thanks
> > Ana
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Prof. Mark Schaffer
Director, CERT
Department of Economics
School of Management & Languages
Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh EH14 4AS
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