Consistent Estimation with a Large Number of Weak Instruments
J.C. Chao and N.R. Swanson
,
5
(
73
)
Econometrica
1673-1692
September
2005
Abstract
This paper conducts a general analysis of the conditions under which consistent estimation can be achieved in instrumental variables regression when the available instruments are weak in the local-to-zero sense. More precisely, the approach adopted in this paper combines key features of the local-to-zero framework of Staiger and Stock (1997) and the many-instrument framework of Morimune (1983) and Bekker (1994) and generalizes both of these frameworks in the following ways.