Thesis icon

Thesis

Essays on weak identification in high-dimensional models with applications in macroeconomics

Abstract:

This thesis consists of four self-contained chapters.

Chapter 2 (co-authored with Prof. Sophocles Mavroeidis and Prof. Anders Kock) considers hypothesis testing in instrumental variable (IV) regression models with few included exogenous covariates but many instruments--possibly more than the number of observations. We look for a method of inference that controls asymptotic size when there is heteroskedasticity and the instruments may be arbitrarily weak. We show that a ridge-regu...

Expand abstract

Actions

Access Document

Files:

Authors

More by this author
Division:
SSD
Department:
Economics
Role:
Author

Contributors

Role:
Contributor
Institution:
University of Oxford
Division:
SSD
Department:
Economics
Sub department:
Economics
Role:
Supervisor
ORCID:
0000-0002-8851-8044


More from this funder
Funder identifier:
http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100004350


DOI:
Type of award:
DPhil
Level of award:
Doctoral
Awarding institution:
University of Oxford

Terms of use


Views and Downloads

Views and downloads will return soon






If you are the owner of this record, you can report an update to it here: Report update to this record

TO TOP