Small-Sample Methods for Cluster-Robust Variance Estimation and Hypothesis Testing in Fixed Effects Models

Robust Performance Hypothesis Testing with the Variance

Applied researchers often test for the difference of the variance of two investment strategies; in particular, when the investment strategies under consideration aim to implement the global minimum variance portfolio. A popular tool to this end is the F -test for the equality of variances. Unfortunately, this test is not valid when the returns are correlated, have tails heavier than the normal ...

Testing the Exactitude of Estimation Methods in the Presence of Outliers: An accounting for Robust Kriging

Estimation of gold reserves and resources has been of interest to mining engineers and geologists for ages. The existence of outlier values shows the economic part of the deposits subject to the fact that don’t depend on the human or technical errors. The presence of these high values causes a pseudo dramatically increment in variance estimation of economical blocks when applying conventional m...

Large Sample Estimation and Hypothesis Testing*

Robust Standard Error Estimation in Fixed-effects Panel Models*

This paper focuses on standard error estimation in Fixed-Effects panel models if there is serial correlation in the error process. Applied researchers have often ignored the problem, probably because major statistical packages do not estimate robust standard errors in FE models. Not surprisingly, this can lead to severe bias in the standard error estimates, both in hypothetical and real-life si...

Nonparametric estimation and testing of fixed effects panel data models.

In this paper we consider the problem of estimating nonparametric panel data models with fixed effects. We introduce an iterative nonparametric kernel estimator. We also extend the estimation method to the case of a semiparametric partially linear fixed effects model. To determine whether a parametric, semiparametric or nonparametric model is appropriate, we propose test statistics to test betw...