TY - JOUR AU - West,Kenneth D. TI - On Optimal Instrumental Variables Estimation of Stationary Time Series Models JF - National Bureau of Economic Research Technical Working Paper Series VL - No. 249 PY - 2000 Y2 - January 2000 UR - http://www.nber.org/papers/t0249 L1 - http://www.nber.org/papers/t0249.pdf N1 - Author contact info: Kenneth D. West Department of Economics University of Wisconsin 1180 Observatory Drive Madison, WI 53706 Tel: 608/262-0033 Fax: 608/262-2033 E-Mail: kdwest@wisc.edu AB - In many time series models, an infinite number of moments can be used for estimation in a large sample. I supply a technically undemanding proof of a condition for optimal instrumental variables use of such moments in a parametric model. I also illustrate application of the condition in estimation of a linear model with a conditionally heteroskedastic disturbance. ER -