We establish sufficient conditions on durations that arestationary with finite variance and memory parameter $d \in[0,1/2)$ to ensure that the corresponding counting process $N(t)$satisfies $Var N(t) \sim C t^{2d+1}$ ($Cgt;0$) as $t\rightarrow \infty$, with the same memory parameter $d...

Instrumental variables estimates of the effect of military service on subsequent civilian earnings either omit schooling or treat it as exogenous. In a more general setting that also allows for the treatment of schooling as endogenous, we estimate the veteran effect for men who were born between...

We analyze the problem of parameter inconsistency in panel data econometrics due to the correlation of exogenous variables with the error term. A common solution in this setting is to use Instrumental-Variable (IV) estimation in the spirit of Hausman-Taylor (1981). However, some potential...

This paper studies nonparametric estimation of conditional moment models in which the generalized residual functions can be nonsmooth in the unknown functions of endogenous variables. This is a nonparametric nonlinear instrumental variables (IV) problem. We propose a class of penalized sieve...

A new bias-corrected estimator is developed to test for habit formation. The estimator is applicable to any dynamic panel model with fixed and spatial effects as well as endogenous control variables. The estimator is asymptotically unbiased and normally distributed. Moreover, simulation results...

This paper investigates the nature of the IV method for tackling endogeneity. By tracing the rise and fall of the method in macroeconometrics and its subsequent revival in microeconometrics, it pins the method down to an implicit model respecification device-breaking the circular causality of...