OLS-based estimation of the disturbance variance under spatial autocorrelation

We investigate the OLS-based estimator s2 of the disturbance variance in the standard linear regression model with cross section data when the disturbances are homoskedastic, but spatially correlated. For the most popular model of spatially autoregressive disturbances, we show that s2 can be severely biased in finite samples, but is asymptotically unbiased and consistent for most types of spatial weighting matrices as sample size increases.

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Year of publication:	2006
Authors:	Krämer, Walter ; Hanck, Christoph
Institutions:	Institut für Wirtschafts- und Sozialstatistik, Universität Dortmund
Subject:	regression \| spatial error correlation \| bias \| variance

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Extent:	application/pdf
Series:	Technical Reports.
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Language:	English
Notes:	Number 2006,42
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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