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st: RE: xtivreg2, robust error


From   "Schaffer, Mark E" <[email protected]>
To   <[email protected]>
Subject   st: RE: xtivreg2, robust error
Date   Mon, 2 Jul 2012 15:56:03 +0100

Ari,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] 
> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ari Dothan
> Sent: 02 July 2012 11:47
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: st: xtivreg2, robust error
> 
> Hi all,
> I use xtivreg2 regressions specifying "fe gmm2s bw(3)".

This means "robust to autocorrelation but NOT heteroskedasticity",
whereas

"fe gmm2s bw(3) robust"

means "robust to autocorrelation AND heteroskedasticity".

> In some cases I get more efficient results (smaller standard 
> error) when specifying "fe gmm2s bw(3) robust" than without 
> the "robust"
> requirement.
> How could this be explained?

You can't safely interpret the differences in this way.  The theoretical
results for efficiency of the 2-step GMM estimator are asymptotic, i.e.,
as the sample size goes to infinity.  What happens in the real world,
with finite samples, can be different.

HTH,
Mark

> Thanking you
> 
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