On the diminishing returns of higher-order terms in asymptotic expansions of bias

Authors
Publication date 2003
Journal Economics Letters
Volume | Issue number 79 | 2
Pages (from-to) 145-152
Organisations
  • Faculty of Economics and Business (FEB) - Amsterdam School of Economics Research Institute (ASE-RI)
Abstract The relative magnitudes are compared of successive terms in a higher-order asymptotic expansion of the bias of the LSDV estimator in dynamic panels. We find that the leading term accounts for the major part of the actual bias in small samples. This implies that bias correction procedures can be based on relatively simple bias approximation formulas.
Document type Article
Language English
Published at https://doi.org/10.1016/S0165-1765(02)00299-9
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