no code implementations • 4 Sep 2023 • Frank Windmeijer
Montiel Olea and Pflueger (2013) proposed the effective F-statistic as a test for weak instruments in terms of the Nagar bias of the two-stage least squares (2SLS) estimator relative to a benchmark worst-case bias.
no code implementations • 9 Dec 2022 • Nicolas Apfel, Frank Windmeijer
We propose a generalized FAS that reflects the model uncertainty when some instruments violate the exclusion assumption and/or some instruments violate the conditional exogeneity assumption.
no code implementations • 3 Aug 2022 • Frank Windmeijer
However, it is shown here that large values of the robust F-statistic do imply that there is first-stage information, but this may not be utilized well by the 2SLS estimator, or the standard GMM estimator.
1 code implementation • 7 Jul 2022 • Yiqi Lin, Frank Windmeijer, Xinyuan Song, Qingliang Fan
We discuss the fundamental issue of identification in linear instrumental variable (IV) models with unknown IV validity.