https://scholars.lib.ntu.edu.tw/handle/123456789/408451
Title: | Optimizing robust conditional moment tests an estimating function approach | Authors: | Chen, Yi Ting CHUNG-MING KUAN |
Keywords: | Conditional Mean-And-Variance;Conditional Quantile;Optimal Estimating Function;Quasi-Maximum Likelihood Method;Robust Conditional Moment Test;Semi-Parametric Optimality | Issue Date: | 1-Jan-2013 | Publisher: | Springer-Verlag | Start page/Pages: | 57-95 | Source: | Recent Advances and Future Directions in Causality, Prediction, and Specification Analysis: Essays in Honor of Halbert L. White Jr | Abstract: | Robust conditional moment (RCM) tests for partial specifications are derived without a full specification assumption. Yet, researchers usually claim the optimality of these RCM tests by reinterpreting them as score tests under certain full specifications. This argument is in fact incompatible with the rationale of RCM tests. In this study, we consider a generalized RCM test based on the estimating function (EF) approach and explore a semi-parametric optimality criterion that does not require full specifications. Specifically, we derive the upper bound of the noncentrality parameter of the generalized RCM test and propose a method to optimize RCM tests so as to achieve this upper bound. The optimized RCM test is associated with the optimal EF method, and it is useful for improving the asymptotic local power of existing RCM tests. The proposed method thus permits researchers to pursue optimality without sacrificing robustness in estimating and testing partial specifications. We illustrate our method using various partial specifications and demonstrate the improved power property of the optimized tests by simulations. |
URI: | https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/84948946969 https://scholars.lib.ntu.edu.tw/handle/123456789/408451 |
ISBN: | 9781461416531 | DOI: | 10.1007/978-1-4614-1653-1_3 |
Appears in Collections: | 財務金融學系 |
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