Econometrica

Journal Of The Econometric Society

An International Society for the Advancement of Economic
Theory in its Relation to Statistics and Mathematics

Edited by: Guido W. Imbens • Print ISSN: 0012-9682 • Online ISSN: 1468-0262

Econometrica: May, 2012, Volume 80, Issue 3

Set Identified Linear Models

https://doi.org/10.3982/ECTA7637
p. 1129-1155

Christian Bontemps, Thierry Magnac, Eric Maurin

We analyze the identification and estimation of parameters satisfying the linear moment restrictions ((−)) = (()), where is a set of instruments and () an unknown bounded scalar function. We first provide empirically relevant examples of such a setup. Second, we show that these conditions set identify where the identified set is bounded and convex. We provide a sharp characterization of the identified set not only when the number of moment conditions is equal to the number of parameters of interest, but also in the case in which the number of conditions is strictly larger than the number of parameters. We derive a necessary and sufficient condition of the validity of supernumerary restrictions which generalizes the familiar Sargan condition. Third, we provide new results on the asymptotics of analog estimates constructed from the identification results. When is a strictly convex set, we also construct a test of the null hypothesis, ∈, whose size is asymptotically correct and which relies on the minimization of the support function of the set − {}. Results of some Monte Carlo experiments are presented.


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