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RE: st: GMM diff vs sys


From   "Nick Cox" <[email protected]>
To   <[email protected]>
Subject   RE: st: GMM diff vs sys
Date   Thu, 9 Feb 2006 11:14:06 -0000

Nick 
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected]
> [mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of
> [email protected]
> Sent: 09 February 2006 10:58
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: st: GMM diff vs sys
> 
> 
> I`ve tried this
> 
> xtlsdvc depvar varlist
> 
> But It hasn`t funtioned Could you tell me what it`s wrong?
> 
> Thanks a lot
> 
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> > There is a recent paper by Bun and Kiviet "The Effects of Dynamic
> > Feedbacks  on LS and MM Estimator Accuracy in Panel Data Models",
> > forthcoming in  Journal of Econometrics. This one explains 
> that there
> > are cases where the  difference GMM can do better than the 
> system GMM.
> >
> > However, with only 20 countries it is very unlikely to get sensible
> > results  regardless of the GMM estimator you use. This is 
> because the
> > virtue of  using GMM is in large samples. You may be better 
> off by using
> > the xtlsdvc  command which refers to Kiviets bias corrected 
> estimator.
> >
> > Best
> >
> > Vasilis
> >
> >
> > On Feb 7 2006, [email protected] wrote:
> >
> >>Dears,
> >>I have a panel dataset for a sample of 20 countries over 8 
> periods I`ve
> >> use GMM method to estimate a model of convergence like this
> >>yit=b yit-1 + q xit + uit
> >>where xit are exogenous variables
> >>I could be posible that difference GMM work better than sysyem GMM?
> >> Thanks
> >>
> >>
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