Conditional moment restrictions can be combined through GMM estimation to construct more efficient semiparametric estimators. This paper is about attainable efficiency for such estimators. We define and use a moment tangent set, the directions of departure from the truth allowed by the moments, to characterize when the semiparametric efficiency bound can be attained. The efficiency condition is that the moment tangent set equals the model tangent set. We apply these results to transformed, censored, and truncated regression models, e.g., finding that the conditional moment restrictions from Powell's (1986) censored regression quantile estimators can be combined to approximate efficiency when the disturbance is independent of regressors.
MLA
Newey, Whitney K.. “Efficient Semiparametric Estimation via Moment Restrictions.” Econometrica, vol. 72, .no 6, Econometric Society, 2004, pp. 1877-1897, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-0262.2004.00557.x
Chicago
Newey, Whitney K.. “Efficient Semiparametric Estimation via Moment Restrictions.” Econometrica, 72, .no 6, (Econometric Society: 2004), 1877-1897. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-0262.2004.00557.x
APA
Newey, W. K. (2004). Efficient Semiparametric Estimation via Moment Restrictions. Econometrica, 72(6), 1877-1897. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-0262.2004.00557.x
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