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Hello,

I estimate this model :

dlog(EC_thb/aud) = BETA1 dlog(EC_USD/aud) + BETA2 dlog(EC_ACU/aud)

where EC is the exchange rate. I explain the movement of thain bath (against a numeraire - asutralian dollar-) by movement of USD (against the same numerair) and an asian currency unit (composed by different asian currencies). Normally the beta give me the weight or the importance of usd and amu in the evolution of the thai bath. But thai bath and acu are in some extense determined by the same variable (us dollar)... so the coefficent BETA 2 is very strong.

So One of my explanatory variable is apparently determined simultaneously with the dependent variable of my model. In this case normally, the former is generally correlated to the error term which leads to inconsistent and biased OLS estimates.

How i can check correlated error term with the explanatory variable in eviews (control this simultaneity bias) ? and how i can remove this effect ?

thank you very much.

Best regards

In general, you need to use TSLS. In this case, perhaps you could add dlog(AUD) to both sides?

Thank you very much,

What do you mean by "In this case, perhaps you could add dlog(AUD) to both sides?"

bests

If you add dlog(AUD) to both sides of the equation, you still have a valid equation. Doing this removes AUD from the left hand side. I was thiking that might help with your endogeneity problem, but on reflection I'm not sure it makes any difference.

ok thank you,

what do you mean by dlog(aud) ?

"aud" mean australian dollar, which is express against an other currency (it is the base currency of different exchange rate in the equation)

Thank you very much for your help, i must find good instruments for my estimation.

dlog(EC_thb/aud)+dlog(aud)=dlog(EC_thb).

But yes, finding good instruments is the way to go.

How i can check for correlation between one of my explanatory variable ad error term ? is there a specific test ? or i only keep residual series (ordinary or standarized ?) and have look to the correlation of the group variables ?

when i look for correlation matrix between the series of my ordinary residual and amu/aus, there is no correlation... so what does it mean ?? However when i look for correlation between my dependent variable (thb/aus) and my explanatories variables (usd/aus) and (acu/aus) they appeared to be very correlated. Moreover, two of my explanatories variables (usd/aus and acu/aus) are very correlated too. It is normal because acu is a basket of asian currencies which are correlated to the dollar also.

But when i check residual of my estimation there is no correlation between residual and all the variables. Maybe i should make a test of correlation ?

Least squares residuals are always correlated with the dependent variable. They are never correlated with any of the independent variables. If you want to test for correlation between the errors and the independent variables you need instruments.