In recent cases, class action plaintiffs have sought to exclude statistical testing that can be useful for conducting the predominance inquiry required under the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. The efforts to banish these methods are not only inconsistent with recent court decisions...

We develop a new specification test for the IV estimators adopting a particular second order approximation of Bekker (1994). The new specification test compares the difference of the forward (conventional) 2SLS estimator of the coefficient of the right hand side endogenous variable with the...

We develop a new specification test for IV estimators adopting a particular second order approximation of Bekker. The new specification test compares the difference of the forward (conventional) 2SLS estimator of the coefficient of the right-hand side endogenous variable with the reverse 2SLS...