Simultaneity represents a fundamental problem when estimating the elasticity of substitution between capital and labour. To overcome this problem, a wide variety of external instruments has been applied in the literature. However, the use of instruments may lead to wrong inference if they are...

Applied researchers using structural models under rational expectations (RE) often confront empirical evidence of misspecification. In this paper we consider a generic dynamic model that is posed as a vector of unconditional moment restrictions. We suppose that the model is globally misspecified...

This study investigates the effects of national culture on financial sector development in emerging and developing economies. Prior literature on culture and finance has placed little focus on the multidimensionality of national culture and its potential implications for financial sector...

In this paper, we study a class of high dimensional moment restriction panel data models with interactive effects, where factors are unobserved and factor loadings are nonparametrically unknown smooth functions of individual characteristics variables. We allow the dimension of parameter vector...

When constructing parametric models to predict the cost of future claims, several important details have to be taken into account: (i) models should be designed to accommodate deductibles, policy limits, and coinsurance factors, (ii) parameters should be estimated robustly to control the...

With some regularity conditions maximum likelihood estimators (MLEs) al-ways produce asymptotically optimal (in the sense of consistency, efficiency, sufficiency,and unbiasedness) estimators. But in general, the MLEs lead to non-robust statisticalinference, for example, pricing models and risk...

Residual momentum strategies earn significant alphas. The common interpretation for this result - that momentum resides in firm-specific returns - is unwarranted: even in the absence of firm-specific momentum, a strategy sorted on residuals is profitable because it is also a bet against betas. A...

Spatial modeling is one of the growing areas of research in economics in recent years. However, these models are not tested enough. Even if tests are performed, they are done in a piece-wise fashion. Another age-long problem in economic modeling is endogeneity of one or more variables....

Indonesia is helming the Group of 20 (G20) presidency for the very first time. A key initiative as announced in the presidential address is the post-pandemic economic recovery. The nation has the largest nominal gross domestic product (GDP) among the 10 nations of Southeast Asia. The research...