Testing conditional moment restriction models using empirical likelihood: empirical likelihood and conditional moment restriction

Abstract

An empirical likelihood test is proposed for parameters of models defined by conditional moment restrictions, such as models with non-linear endogenous covariates, with or without heteroscedastic errors or non-separable transformation models. The number of empirical likelihood constraints is given by the size of the parameter, unlike alternative semi-parametric approaches. We show that the empirical likelihood ratio test is asymptotically pivotal, without explicit studentisation. A simulation study shows that the observed size is close to the nominal level, unlike alternative empirical likelihood approaches. It also offers a major advantages over two-stage least-squares, because the relationship between the endogenous and instrumental variables does not need to be known. An empirical likelihood model specification test is also proposed.

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ORCID for Yves Berger: orcid.org/0000-0002-9128-5384

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