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Nonparametric instrumental variable derivative estimation

Samuele Centorrino, Jean-Pierre Florens, and Jeffrey S. Racine

Abstract

The focus of this paper is the nonparametric estimation of the marginal effects (i.e. first partial derivatives) of an instrumental regression function ? defined by conditional moment restrictions that stem from a structural econometric model , and involve endogenous variables Y and Z and instruments W. The derivative function is the solution of an ill-posed inverse problem and we propose an estimation procedure based on Landweber–Fridman regularisation. We provide theoretical underpinnings of the proposed approach, examine finite-sample performance, and consider an illustrative application.

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Samuele Centorrino, Jean-Pierre Florens, and Jeffrey S. Racine, Nonparametric instrumental variable derivative estimation, Journal of Nonparametric Statistics, vol. 30, n. 2, 2018, pp. 368–391.

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Journal of Nonparametric Statistics, vol. 30, n. 2, 2018, pp. 368–391