Two-way models for gravity

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© 2017 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Empirical models for dyadic interactions between n agents often feature agent-specific parameters. Fixed-effect estimators of such models generally have bias of order n-1, which is nonnegligible relative to their standard error. Therefore, confidence sets based on the asymptotic distribution have incorrect coverage. This paper looks at models with multiplicative unobservables and fixed effects. We derive moment conditions that are free of fixed effects and use them to set up estimators that are n-consistent, asymptotically normally distributed, and asymptotically unbiased. We provide Monte Carlo evidence for a range of models. We estimate a gravity equation as an empirical illustration.

Publication Date
2017
Online Publication Date
2017-07-17
Acceptance Date
2016-04-21
Keywords
38 Economics, 3802 Econometrics
Journal Title
Review of Economics and Statistics
Journal ISSN
0034-6535
1530-9142
Volume Title
99
Publisher
The MIT Press Journals