Testing functional inequalities

Journal of Econometrics

Volumn 172, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 14-32

  Lee, Sokbae ^a,b   Song, Kyungchul ^c   Whang, Yoon Jae ^a  

^a Seoul National University   (South Korea)

^b INSTITUTE FOR FISCAL STUDIES   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Conditional moment inequalities; Kernel estimation; Local power; One sided test; Poissonization

Indexed keywords

CONSTRAINT THEORY; MONTE CARLO METHODS; STATISTICAL TESTS;

CONDITIONAL MOMENTS; KERNEL ESTIMATION; LOCAL POWER; ONE-SIDED TEST; POISSONIZATION;

NORMAL DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 84869122915     PISSN: 03044076     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jeconom.2012.08.006     Document Type: Article

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