Valid inference in partially unstable generalized method of moments models

Review of Economic Studies

Volumn 76, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 343-365

  Li, Hong ^a   Müller, Ulrich K ^b  

^a BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; MODELING; NUMERICAL METHOD; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

EID: 58149287937     PISSN: 00346527     EISSN: 1467937X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-937X.2008.00516.x     Document Type: Article

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