2-stage Heckman instrumental variable estimation (Urgent)

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2-stage Heckman instrumental variable estimation (Urgent)

Postby maxt » Sun Mar 30, 2014 8:40 am

Hi Guys,
I am working on my thesis. My main regression model is the following:
(1) Y=x1*Payment+x2*Country+x3*Industry.....
All independent variables are dummy/binary variables.
In a next step I divide my sample and construct the following two regression:
(2) Y=x2*Country+x3*Industry... => Here I only consider observations which had the value "1" regarding the "Payment"-independent variable
(3) Y=x2*Country+x3*Industry... => Here I only considder observations which had the value "0" regarding the "Payment"-independent variable.

The independent variable "Payment" is quite important in my thesis and all remaining variables can be rather considered as control variables. Payment takes the value 1 if the M&A deal is paid in cash and 0 if it is paid in shares.

I received the following feedback from my supervisor and I am not quite sure how to incorporate it:
"...Can you really split the sample into cash and stock M&A?... If you are indeed correct with your hypothessis then different companies will go for cash than for stock as a payment method...Hence your two populations are NOT the same. In other words: There is a endogeneity problem. To solve it use the 2-stage Heckman instrumental variable estimation....Pay attention to the economic justification of your IVs and to their econometric testing (valid instrument)..."

When I look up the Heckman procedure (especially the female wage example) it seems that it is analysing Y. However I understand that I need to do this with my independent variable ("Payment").

Hence I am confused as I dont see the link between the female wage example and my case....Please help me.

Thany you very much in advance.
Max

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