Symmetry-based inference in an instrumental variable setting |
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Authors: | Paul A. Bekker Steve Lawford |
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Affiliation: | 1. Department of Economics, University of Groningen, The Netherlands;2. CORE, Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium;3. ECARES, Free University of Brussels, Belgium |
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Abstract: | We describe exact inference based on group-invariance assumptions that specify various forms of symmetry in the distribution of a disturbance vector in a general nonlinear model. It is shown that such mild assumptions can be equivalently formulated in terms of exact confidence sets for the parameters of the functional form. When applied to the linear model, this exact inference provides a unified approach to a variety of parametric and distribution-free tests. In particular, we consider exact instrumental variable inference, based on symmetry assumptions. The unboundedness of exact confidence sets is related to the power to reject a hypothesis of underidentification. In a multivariate instrumental variables context, generalizations of Anderson–Rubin confidence sets are considered. |
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Keywords: | C1 |
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