instrumental variable help

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instrumental variable help

Postby econ » Tue Apr 19, 2011 11:21 am

hi there,

i have searched through other threads but can't manage to find any answers to the problem i'm having. i'm not good with econometrics, and i am unable to do something extremely simple using eviews.

i specify the equation, having selected 2SLS:

y c d q d*q

(where d is a dummy and d*q is the interactive term).

i then need to instrument for q and d*q, as both are endogenous and so use r to do so. I have been told that i use the instrument list of:

r d*r

when i do so, i get an error message coming up saying that there are insufficient instruments. even if i have other instruments (which i can add if need be), the message still comes up. i have used the constant, as well as including my dummy in the instrument (not sure if this is right) and it still won't work. the only time it is successful is if i move q d*q into the instrument list as well. am i doing something stupidly wrong and i haven't realised?

any help would be much appreciated, thanks.

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Re: instrumental variable help

Postby EViews Glenn » Tue Apr 19, 2011 12:05 pm

You need d as well...

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Re: instrumental variable help

Postby startz » Tue Apr 19, 2011 1:00 pm

You need four instruments, including the constant. Make sure they are all exogenous.

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Re: instrumental variable help

Postby EViews Glenn » Tue Apr 19, 2011 2:56 pm

c is added automatically unless you tell EViews not to...

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Re: instrumental variable help

Postby startz » Tue Apr 19, 2011 3:45 pm

Yeah, yeah, yeah. So add three instruments plus the constant that EViews include.

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Re: instrumental variable help

Postby econ » Wed Apr 20, 2011 7:40 am

thanks for your help. everything i tried didn't work, so have had to do things a bit differently. thanks for the quick replies.

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Re: instrumental variable help

Postby ramadhan23 » Tue Nov 04, 2014 10:54 pm

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i want to ask how to use instrument variables into a model? i am working on a thesis about international capm and need to incorporate instrument variables to the estimation model as attached. as you can see the lambda m is the instrument variables, In my research i use 5 instrument variables (constant included) , can anybody explain how its done in eviews? thanks


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