Specification testing in nonparametric instrumental variable estimation

Journal of Econometrics

Volumn 167, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 383-396

  Horowitz, Joel L ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Instrumental variable; Inverse problem; Linear operator; Series estimator

Indexed keywords

CONSISTENT TESTING; DEMAND FUNCTION; ENGEL CURVES; INSTRUMENTAL VARIABLES; LARGE CLASS; LINEAR OPERATORS; MONTE CARLO EXPERIMENTS; NON-PARAMETRIC; NULL HYPOTHESIS; SERIES ESTIMATOR; SMOOTH SOLUTIONS; SPECIFICATION TESTING; SUFFICIENT CONDITIONS;

FUNCTIONS; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; INVERSE PROBLEMS; MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

ESTIMATION;

EID: 84857195932     PISSN: 03044076     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jeconom.2011.09.023     Document Type: Conference Paper

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