Nonparametric instrumental regression

Econometrica

Volumn 79, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1541-1565

  Darolles, S ^a   Fan, Y ^b   Florens, J P ^c   Renault, E ^d  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DAUPHINE   (France)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c TOULOUSE SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (France)

^d BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ill posed problem; Instrumental variables; Integral equation; Kernel smoothing; Tikhonov regularization

Indexed keywords

EID: 80053081561     PISSN: 00129682     EISSN: 14680262     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3982/ECTA6539     Document Type: Article

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