A comparison of bias approximations for the two-stage least squares (2SLS) estimator

Economics Letters

Volumn 113, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 76-79

  Bun, Maurice J G ^a   Windmeijer, Frank ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bias; Instrumental variables; Weak instruments

Indexed keywords

EID: 79960010019     PISSN: 01651765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2011.05.047     Document Type: Article

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