Bootstrap Confidence Sets with Weak Instruments

Econometric Reviews

Volumn 33, Issue 5-6, 2014, Pages 651-675

  Davidson, Russell ^a,c   MacKinnon, James G ^b  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique   (France)

Author keywords

Bootstrap; Confidence sets; Weak instruments

Indexed keywords

EID: 84889246691     PISSN: 07474938     EISSN: 15324168     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07474938.2013.825177     Document Type: Article

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