The Asymptotic Properties of GMM and Indirect Inference under Second-order Identiﬁcation

Prosper Dovonon and Alastair Hall

Abstract: This paper presents a limiting distribution theory for GMM and Indirect Inference estimators when local identiﬁcation conditions fail at ﬁrst-order but hold at second-order. These limit distributions are shown to be non-standard, but we show that they can be easily simulated, making it possible to perform inference about the parameters in this setting. We illustrate our results in the context of a dynamic panel data model in which the parameter of interest is identiﬁed locally at second order by non-linear moment restrictions but not at ﬁrst order at a particular point in the parameter space. Our simulation results indicate that our theory leads to reliable inferences in moderate to large samples in the neighbourhood of this point of ﬁrst-order identiﬁcation failure. In contrast, inferences based on standard asymptotic theory (derived under the assumption of ﬁrst-order local identiﬁcation) are very misleading in the neighbourhood of the point of ﬁrst-order local identiﬁcation failure.

Keywords: Moment-based estimation; First-order identiﬁcation failure; Minimum-chi squared estimation; Simulation-based estimation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018-12-18
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