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: Jul, 1997, Volume 65, Issue 4

An Information-Theoretic Alternative to Generalized Method of Moments Estimation

https://doi.org/0012-9682(199707)65:4<861:AIATGM>2.0.CO;2-V
p. 861-874

Michael Stutzer, Yuichi Kitamura

While optimally weighted GMM estimation has desirable large sample properties, its small sample performance is poor in some applications. We propose a computationally simple alternative, for weakly dependent data generating mechanisms, based on minimization of the Kullback-Leibler Information Criterion. Conditions are derived under which the large sample properties of this estimator are similar to GMM, i.e., the estimator will be consistent and asymptotically normal, with the same asymptotic covariance matrix as GMM. In addition, we propose overidentifying and parametric restrictions tests as alternatives to analogous GMM procedures.


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