2SLS Manual Input vs. Eviews

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Amaziah
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2SLS Manual Input vs. Eviews

Postby Amaziah » Thu Oct 22, 2015 8:12 pm

I am trying to test for simultaneity by estimating a 2SLS instrumental variable procedure. I estimated the two steps manually and then compared them to the Eviews preprogrammed 2SLS estimation and got extremely different results. I am obviously making a mistake in one, if not both, of the procedures. Can someone help correct my estimation mistakes?

Eviews Estimation
P (price) is the potential endogenous explanatory variable and othrsrvcs is the instrumental variable.
Equation Specification:

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att c expand rex p rinc pop ur win oppwin hwin prev rank temp precip night hist comm finale hc conf lastgame gamescoached rtv ntv


Instrument List:

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expand rex othrsrvcs rinc pop ur win oppwin hwin prev rank temp precip night hist comm finale hc conf lastgame gamescoached rtv ntv


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Manual Estimation
I first regressed the potential simultaneous variable (p) on all of the other explanatory variables and the instrument (othrsrvcs).

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ls p c expand rex othrsrvcs rinc pop ur win oppwin hwin prev rank temp precip night hist comm finale hc conf lastgame gamescoached rtv ntv


I saved the residuals as the series pfit. I then estimated the original specification with the pfit series instead of p:

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ls att c expand rex pfit rinc pop ur win oppwin hwin prev rank temp precip night hist comm finale hc conf lastgame gamescoached rtv ntv


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startz
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Re: 2SLS Manual Input vs. Eviews

Postby startz » Thu Oct 22, 2015 8:51 pm

The problem is probably that you want the fitted values--not the residuals.

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Re: 2SLS Manual Input vs. Eviews

Postby Amaziah » Thu Oct 22, 2015 9:26 pm

Thank you. I want to include both the residuals and fitted value of the possible endogenous variable correct?

I generated the fitted values by forecasting the historical observations (phat). I estimated the following:

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ls att c expand rex (phat+pfit) rinc pop ur win oppwin hwin prev rank temp precip night hist comm finale hc conf lastgame gamescoached rtv ntv


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Eviews Estimation

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startz
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Re: 2SLS Manual Input vs. Eviews

Postby startz » Fri Oct 23, 2015 6:19 am

No.

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Re: 2SLS Manual Input vs. Eviews

Postby Amaziah » Fri Oct 23, 2015 6:38 am

startz wrote:No.


You are referring to including the residuals and the fitted values of the endoeneous variable? I got that from pages 6 and 7 from following source:
http://www.nyu.edu/classes/nagler/quant ... tes_oh.pdf. Is this methodology incorrect or just different?

But below are the results only using the fitted values of the endogenous variable. Is the discrepancy between methods a result of a mistake in my use of the Eviews 2SLS method?

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ls att c expand rex phat rinc pop ur win oppwin hwin prev rank temp precip night hist comm finale hc conf lastgame gamescoached rtv ntv


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Re: 2SLS Manual Input vs. Eviews

Postby startz » Fri Oct 23, 2015 7:05 am

1. What is the discrepancy you are seeing?
2. The link you posted says to use the fitted values.

Amaziah
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Re: 2SLS Manual Input vs. Eviews

Postby Amaziah » Fri Oct 23, 2015 7:15 am

startz wrote:1. What is the discrepancy you are seeing?


For example, when I use the preprogrammed 2SLS on Eviews I get the following results, which are much different than the ones I just posted.

Eviews Estimation.png
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startz wrote: 2. The link you posted says to use the fitted values.


It says that X=X^+v^.

And then says to substitute X^ into the original equation for X: Y=a+b1(X^+v^)+b2X2+u.

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Re: 2SLS Manual Input vs. Eviews

Postby startz » Fri Oct 23, 2015 7:21 am

It says substitute in X^.
Which results are different?

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Re: 2SLS Manual Input vs. Eviews

Postby Amaziah » Fri Oct 23, 2015 7:27 am

startz wrote:Which results are different?


The standard errors, and therefore t-Statistics, and the summary statistics differ.

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Re: 2SLS Manual Input vs. Eviews

Postby startz » Fri Oct 23, 2015 7:31 am

That's right. Doing the two stages manually requires a correction to the standard errors, as the document you posted states.

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Re: 2SLS Manual Input vs. Eviews

Postby Amaziah » Fri Oct 23, 2015 7:38 am

startz wrote:Doing the two stages manually requires a correction to the standard errors.


How can I correct the standard errors?

Since the Eviews 2SLS estimation results are poor, this would suggest that X^ is a noisy predictor of X?

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Re: 2SLS Manual Input vs. Eviews

Postby startz » Fri Oct 23, 2015 8:32 am

If by "poor" you mean low t-statistics, yes that could be due to a noisy predictor.

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Re: 2SLS Manual Input vs. Eviews

Postby Amaziah » Fri Oct 23, 2015 8:36 am

Okay. Thank you very much for all your help and for walking me through this step by step.


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