% WARNING: This file may contain UTF-8 (unicode) characters. % While non-8-bit characters are officially unsupported in BibTeX, you % can use them with the biber backend of biblatex % usepackage[backend=biber]{biblatex} @techreport{NBERt0198, title = "Asymptotics for GMM Estimators with Weak Instruments", author = "Stock, James H and Wright, Jonathan", institution = "National Bureau of Economic Research", type = "Working Paper", series = "Technical Working Paper Series", number = "198", year = "1996", month = "July", doi = {10.3386/t0198}, URL = "http://www.nber.org/papers/t0198", abstract = {This paper develops asymptotic distribution theory for generalized method of moments (GMM) estimators and test statistics when some of the parameters are well identified, but others are poorly identified because of weak instruments. The asymptotic theory entails applying empirical process theory to obtain a limiting representation of the (concentrated) objective function as a stochastic process. The general results are specialized to two leading cases, linear instrumental variables regression and GMM estimation of Euler equations obtained from the consumption-based capital asset pricing model with power utility. Numerical results of the latter model confirm that finite sample distributions can deviate substantially from normality, and indicate that these deviations are captured by the weak instrument asymptotic approximations.}, }