@techreport{NBERt0011, title = "Two-Step Two-Stage Least Squares Estimation in Models with Rational Expectations", author = "Maurice Obstfeld and Robert E. Cumby and John Huizinga", institution = "National Bureau of Economic Research", type = "Working Paper", series = "Technical Working Paper Series", number = "11", year = "1983", month = "July", URL = "http://www.nber.org/papers/t0011", abstract = {This paper introduces a limited-information two-step estimator for models with rational expectations and serially correlated disturbances. The estimator greatly extends the area of applicability of McCallum's (1976) instrumental variables approach to rational expectations models. Section I reviews McCallum%s method and discusses in detail the problems surrounding its use in many empirical c/ntexts. Section II presents the two-step two-stage least squares estimator (2S2S1) and demonstrates its efficiency relative to that of McCallum (1979). Section III provides a comparison nf several estim!tors for a two equation macroeconomic model with rational expectations due to Taylor (1979).}, }