Chapter 77 Linear Inverse Problems in Structural Econometrics Estimation Based on Spectral Decomposition and Regularization

Handbook of Econometrics

Volumn 6, Issue SUPPL. PART B, 2007, Pages 5633-5751

  Carrasco, Marine ^a   Florens, Jean Pierre ^b   Renault, Eric ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b TOULOUSE SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

additive models; generalized method of moments; instrumental variables; integral equation; many regressors; nonparametric estimation; Tikhonov and Landweber Fridman regularizations

Indexed keywords

EID: 66049130751     PISSN: 15734412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S1573-4412(07)06077-1     Document Type: Review

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