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Masaya Nishihata and Taisuke Otsu |
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''Conditional GMM estimation for gravity models'' |
( 2020, Vol. 40 No.2 ) |
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This paper studies finite sample performances of the conditional GMM estimators for a particular conditional moment restriction model, which is commonly applied in economic analysis using gravity models of international trade. We consider the GMM estimator with growing moments and Dominguez and Lobato's (2004) process-based GMM estimator. Under the simulation designs by Santos Silva and Tenreyro (2006, 2011), we find that Dominguez and Lobato's (2004) estimator is favorably comparable with the Poisson pseudo maximum likelihood estimator, and outperforms other estimators. |
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Keywords: GMM, Gravity model, Conditional moment restriction |
JEL: C1 - Econometric and Statistical Methods: General C2 - Single Equation Models; Single Variables: General |
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Manuscript Received : Nov 03 2019 | | Manuscript Accepted : Apr 29 2020 |
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