Indirect Inference: Which Moments to Match?
The standard approach to indirect inference estimation considers that the auxiliary parameters, which carry the identifying information about the structural parameters of interest, are obtained from some recently identified vector of estimating equations. In contrast to this standard interpretation,...
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| description | The standard approach to indirect inference estimation considers that the auxiliary parameters, which carry the identifying information about the structural parameters of interest, are obtained from some recently identified vector of estimating equations. In contrast to this standard interpretation, we demonstrate that the case of overidentified auxiliary parameters is both possible, and, indeed, more commonly encountered than one may initially realize. We then revisit the “moment matching” and “parameter matching” versions of indirect inference in this context and devise efficient estimation strategies in this more general framework. Perhaps surprisingly, we demonstrate that if one were to consider the naive choice of an efficient Generalized Method of Moments (GMM)-based estimator for the auxiliary parameters, the resulting indirect inference estimators would be inefficient. In this general context, we demonstrate that efficient indirect inference estimation actually requires a two-step estimation procedure, whereby the goal of the first step is to obtain an efficient version of the auxiliary model. These two-step estimators are presented both within the context of moment matching and parameter matching. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-1dde0258ca6142d9b0dfd362ab6e29ec2022-12-22T04:04:11ZengMDPI AGEconometrics2225-11462019-03-01711410.3390/econometrics7010014econometrics7010014Indirect Inference: Which Moments to Match?David T. Frazier0Eric Renault1Department of Econometrics and Business Statistics, Monash University, Melbourne 3800, AustraliaDepartment of Economics, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, UKThe standard approach to indirect inference estimation considers that the auxiliary parameters, which carry the identifying information about the structural parameters of interest, are obtained from some recently identified vector of estimating equations. In contrast to this standard interpretation, we demonstrate that the case of overidentified auxiliary parameters is both possible, and, indeed, more commonly encountered than one may initially realize. We then revisit the “moment matching” and “parameter matching” versions of indirect inference in this context and devise efficient estimation strategies in this more general framework. Perhaps surprisingly, we demonstrate that if one were to consider the naive choice of an efficient Generalized Method of Moments (GMM)-based estimator for the auxiliary parameters, the resulting indirect inference estimators would be inefficient. In this general context, we demonstrate that efficient indirect inference estimation actually requires a two-step estimation procedure, whereby the goal of the first step is to obtain an efficient version of the auxiliary model. These two-step estimators are presented both within the context of moment matching and parameter matching.http://www.mdpi.com/2225-1146/7/1/14indirect inferenceauxiliary modelsoveridentification |
| spellingShingle | David T. Frazier Eric Renault Indirect Inference: Which Moments to Match? Econometrics indirect inference auxiliary models overidentification |
| title | Indirect Inference: Which Moments to Match? |
| title_full | Indirect Inference: Which Moments to Match? |
| title_fullStr | Indirect Inference: Which Moments to Match? |
| title_full_unstemmed | Indirect Inference: Which Moments to Match? |
| title_short | Indirect Inference: Which Moments to Match? |
| title_sort | indirect inference which moments to match |
| topic | indirect inference auxiliary models overidentification |
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