I have a panel of banks during the Great Depression with quarterly
observations. I am interested in seeing how they were managing their cash
reserves during this time. Therefore I the have reserves to assets ratio
as my dependent variable and my independent variables are bank
characteristics, macro variables, and monetary variables.
I was running the xtreg, fe command for a fixed effects model. However, my
data set suffers from attrition as some banks go out of business and leave
the data set for good.
Since the attrition will produce biased estimates in the fixed effects
approach, I was referred to Wooldridge's discussion of attrition in his
panel data book. He recommends an approach that uses first differences and
then an IV OLS regression. In his book, its on pages 585-590 if this is
not clear.
It seems that the xtivreg2 command does exactly what he recommends for
correcting for attrition. Am I correct in this assumption? Or do I
manually need to first difference and then run an IV estimation? Forgive
me if I am asking something that is extremely remedial or nonsensical. I
am an economic historian by training and not very well versed in
econometrics of this type.
Any input would be greatly appreciated.
Thank You
Patrick
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