Bias Reduction for Dynamic Nonlinear Panel Models with Fixed Effects
          
                  Jinyong Hahn and Guido Kuersteiner
      
  
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            Econometric Theory
      
            1152-1191
      
            December
      
            2011
      
            Hahn-Kuersteiner2.pdf386.33 KB
          
                          
      
  
  Abstract
              The fixed effects estimator of panel models can be severely biased because of well-known incidental parameter problems. It is shown that this bias can be reduced as T grows with n. We consider asymptotics where n and T grow at the same rate as an approximation that allows us to compare bias properties. Under these asymptotics, bias corrected estimators we propose are centered at the truth, whereas fixed effects estimators are not. Our methods are applicable to a wide variety of non-linear dynamic panel models.