Kremena Platikanova replied:
> Thank you for your response.
>
> Here is a little more information about my panel data. The indeces in Xijt
> stand for i=importer country, j=exporter country, t=year.
>
> My goal is to estimate (for multiple industries) the gravity equation:
>
> Y_ijt=a+a_it+a_jt+a_ij+b1*X1_it+b2*X2_jt+b3*R_it+e_ijt
>
> where Y=Imports, X_1it=importer characteristics, X2_jt=exporter
> characteristics, R_it=reform dummy (=1 for the year of and the years
> following
> the strengthening of intellectual property rights in the importer
> country).
>
> But again my question is how to specify the variable corresponding to the
> index j?
All you've done is restate the question, so I don't have that much more to
say to this.
One comment I will make is on your nesting of 'importer' nations into
'exporter' ones. Now, pardon me for being a part-time political scientist,
but that looks a bit suss to me. Conceptually, to me at any rate, they
exist on the same level. If, and only if, I'm correct on that, my
suggestion is the same: i.e., run -tsset- twice - once for the 'i-nations'
and once again for the 'e-nations' - and see whether any differences occur
in fitting the model you state above.
I rather think that there are more important estimation issues to consider
here, anyway (e.g., which panel model to use, fixed effects or
first-differences, are lags to be used, etc.), which will have probably
have greater impact on the findings of your model than how you should use
-tsset-.
The fact that nobody else has yet posted a response to your query would
appear to suggest that this really is the only solution anybody can think
of, barring divine inspiration.
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