TY - JOUR AU - Inoue,Atsushi AU - Solon,Gary TI - A Portmanteau Test for Serially Correlated Errors in Fixed Effects Models JF - National Bureau of Economic Research Technical Working Paper Series VL - No. 310 PY - 2005 Y2 - June 2005 UR - http://www.nber.org/papers/t0310 L1 - http://www.nber.org/papers/t0310.pdf N1 - Author contact info: Atsushi Inoue North Carolina State University Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, Raleigh, NC 27695-8109 E-Mail: atsushi@ncsu.edu Gary Solon Department of Economics Michigan State University East Lansing, MI 48824-1038 Tel: 517/353-9933 Fax: 517/432-1068 E-Mail: solon@msu.edu AB - We propose a portmanteau test for serial correlation of the error term in a fixed effects model. The test is derived as a conditional Lagrange multiplier test, but it also has a straightforward Wald test interpretation. In Monte Carlo experiments, the test displays good size and power properties. ER -