Robust Two-Step Confidence Sets, and the Trouble with the First Stage F-Statistic

When weak identification is a concern researchers frequently calculate confidence sets in two steps, first assessing the strength of identification and then, on the basis of this initial assessment, deciding whether to use an identification-robust confidence set. Unfortunately, two-step procedures o...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Andrews, Isaiah
Format: Working Paper
Language:en_US
Published: 2014
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/89188