Journal
ECONOMETRICA
Volume 83, Issue 3, Pages 1013-1079Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.3982/ECTA10771
Keywords
Nonlinear nonparametric instrumental variables; penalized sieve minimum distance; irregular functional; sieve variance estimators; sieve Wald; sieve quasi likelihood ratio; generalized residual bootstrap; local power; Wilks phenomenon
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- National Science Foundation [SES-0838161]
- Cowles Foundation
- Economic and Social Research Council [ES/H021221/1] Funding Source: researchfish
- ESRC [ES/H021221/1] Funding Source: UKRI
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This paper considers inference on functionals of semi/nonparametric conditional moment restrictions with possibly nonsmooth generalized residuals, which include all of the (nonlinear) nonparametric instrumental variables (IV) as special cases. These models are often ill-posed and hence it is difficult to verify whether a (possibly nonlinear) functional is root-n estimable or not. We provide computationally simple, unified inference procedures that are asymptotically valid regardless of whether a functional is root-n estimable or not. We establish the following new useful results: (1) the asymptotic normality of a plug-in penalized sieve minimum distance (PSMD) estimator of a (possibly nonlinear) functional; (2) the consistency of simple sieve variance estimators for the plug-in PSMD estimator, and hence the asymptotic chi-square distribution of the sieve Wald statistic; (3) the asymptotic chi-square distribution of an optimally weighted sieve quasi likelihood ratio (QLR) test under the null hypothesis; (4) the asymptotic tight distribution of a non-optimally weighted sieve QLR statistic under the null; (5) the consistency of generalized residual bootstrap sieve Wald and QLR tests; (6) local power properties of sieve Wald and QLR tests and of their bootstrap versions; (7) asymptotic properties of sieve Wald and SQLR for functionals of increasing dimension. Simulation studies and an empirical illustration of a nonparametric quantile IV regression are presented.
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