Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/67770 
Year of Publication: 
2011
Series/Report no.: 
Queen's Economics Department Working Paper No. 1257
Publisher: 
Queen's University, Department of Economics, Kingston (Ontario)
Abstract: 
Economists are often interested in the coefficient of a single endogenous explanatory variable in a linear simultaneous equations model. One way to obtain a confidence set for this coefficient is to invert the Anderson-Rubin test. The AR confidence sets that result have correct coverage under classical assumptions. In this paper, however, we show that AR confidence sets also have many undesirable properties. Their coverage conditional on quantities that the investigator can observe, notably the Sargan statistic, can be far from correct. It is well known that they can be unbounded when the instruments are weak. Even when they are bounded, their length may be very misleading. We argue that, at least when the instruments are not so weak that inference is hopeless, it is much better to obtain confidence intervals by bootstrapping either the IV or LIML t statistic on the coefficient of interest in a particular way that we propose.
Subjects: 
bootstrap
confidence interval
instrumental variables
LIML
Sargan test
weak instruments
JEL: 
C15
C26
C36
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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