Andrea,
The problem is that
xtdata, fe
is being applied to every variable in your dataset, including your panel
and time variables. This is why -tsset- complains - the transformed
variable year is now in mean-deviatin form.
You should list the variables explicitly and then things should work.
Also, do you have the same problem with your dummies if you use xtreg,fe?
If so, then my almost-but-not-quite-ready -xtivreg2- won't be of any help.
--Mark
> Appologies if this message comes across twice, I'm having problems with my
> server this morning...
> ----------------------
> Clive,
>
> Thanks for your suggestion. I didn't show an output because I was just
> trying to find a more efficient and less time-consuming solution to
> estimating a fixed effects model which has HAC-corrected standard errors.
> I tried -ivreg2- and it works fine for pooled OLS, but, as with -newey2-
> (and
> as far as I understood), it would only estimate a fixed effects model when
> introducing the dummies myself (hence running the risk of some of them
> being dropped. Do you know of any other way?
>
> I tried first converting the data with -xtdata,fe- (following what Joanna
> found in the archive), but when I then try to run ivreg2 I get an error
> message. What I did was:
>
> use datas.dta, clear
> iis mx
>
> tis year
>
> tsset mx year
>
>
>
> xtdata, fe
>
>
>
> ivreg2 lremmetal lrepmetalg lrecmetalg lrgdp95pcm lrgdp95pcx lbrer btmetal
> rcametalx, bw(2) robust small
> must tsset data and specify timevar
>
>
>
> ************
>
> and if I do (again):
>
>
>
> tsset mx year
>
>
>
> I get the error message:
>
>
>
> "time variable must contain only integer values"
>
>
>
>
> I hope that's clearer than in my previous email. I saw a reply by Mark
> Schaffer saying that he had a version of -xtivreg2- for fixed effects, and
> it would be great trying it... Any suggestions would be more than
> welcomed!!!
>
>
>
> Many thanks,
>
> Andrea
>
>
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> -------------
>
> Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2005 22:01:02 +0100 (BST)
> From: "Mark Schaffer" <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: st: XTIVREG2
>
> Joana,
>
> I have a working version of "xtivreg2", but it does only fixed effects
> estimation.
>
> However, I'm not sure that you actually have a problem. When doing a
> Hausman test for endogeneity in IV estimation, the differenced variance
> matrix typically isn't of full rank. -hausman- will print out a warning
> that "(V_b-V_B is not positive definite)", but it doesn't indicate that
> anything is actually wrong.
>
> If you try doing the endogeneity test for simple IV estimation that is in
> the manuals somewhere, you'll probably find that the same warning message
> appears.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> Cheers,
> Mark
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Clive Nicholas" <[email protected]>
> To: <[email protected]>
> Sent: Tuesday, September 20, 2005 8:20 AM
> Subject: Re: st: Newey-West
>
>
>> Andrea Molinari wrote:
>>
>> > I am trying to estimate a fixed effects model with heteroscedasticity
> and
>> > serially correlated corrected standard errors. I am currently using
>> > -newey2- and including the fixed effects as dummies, but I thought
>> that
>> > maybe STATA has a safer (as some of the dummies get dropped on the
>> way, > changing the interpretation of other dummies in the model) and
>> more
>> > efficient way (it takes me quite a while to estimate each
> specification).
>>
>> [...]
>>
>> You show no output, which hinders us from giving you any proper help. I
>> would suggest trying Baum/Schaffer/Stillman's -ivreg2- with the -bw(2)-,
>> -robust- and -small- options switched on and see what happens.
>>
>> CLIVE NICHOLAS |t: 0(044)7903 397793
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>>
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