Impossibility results for nondifferentiable functionals

Econometrica

Volumn 80, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 1769-1790

  Hirano, Keisuke ^a   Porter, Jack R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Bias correction; Bounds; Local asymptotics; Moment inequality models

Indexed keywords

EID: 84864310566     PISSN: 00129682     EISSN: 14680262     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3982/ECTA8681     Document Type: Article

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