On the Testability of Identification in Some Nonparametric Models With Endogeneity

Econometrica

Volumn 81, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 2535-2559

  Canay, Ivan A ^a   Santos, Andres ^b   Shaikh, Azeem M ^c  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Bounded completeness; Completeness; Identification; Instrumental variables

Indexed keywords

EID: 84887505906     PISSN: 00129682     EISSN: 14680262     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3982/ECTA10851     Document Type: Article

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