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: Mar, 1983, Volume 51, Issue 2

Testing Non-Nested Models After Estimation by Instrumental Variables or Least Squares

https://doi.org/0012-9682(198303)51:2<355:TNMAEB>2.0.CO;2-4
p. 355-366

L. G. Godfrey

Differing opinions about the specification of econometric relationships often lead to a situation in which there are competing non-nested models. This paper is concerned with the problem of testing such models. It is first assumed that tests are based upon instrumental variable estimates (so that the models can be alternative versions of an equation in a system). The tests so derived are then specialized to the case in which ordinary least squares is an appropriate estimator.


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