Information theoretic approaches to inference in moment condition models

Econometrica

Volumn 66, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 333-357

  Imbens, Guido W ^a   Spady, Richard H ^a   Johnson, Phillip ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Empirical likelihood; Exponential tilting; Generalized method of moments; Kullback Leibler information; Overidentification tests

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000975771     PISSN: 00129682     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2998561     Document Type: Article

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