Are "Nearly Exogenous Instruments" reliable?

Economics Letters

Volumn 101, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 20-23

  Berkowitz, Daniel ^a   Caner, Mehmet ^b   Fang, Ying ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c XIAMEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

C30; Inference; Valid instruments; Weak identification

Indexed keywords

EID: 49949117527     PISSN: 01651765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2008.03.020     Document Type: Article

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