About your question # 1: The command line produce exactly what you requested
About your question # 2: You may ask directly to the author how (s)he derived the conclusions.
-xtabond2- automatically provides a number of tests for autocorrelation and endogeneity, and its author cite its useful guide to the command at the beginning of the description paragraph of the help file.
Nicola
At 02.33 29/10/2007 -0400, you wrote:
>Dear all,
>
>I'm a newbie with Stata and I'm trying to estimate a dynamic panel data
>model using an unbalanced data set with more than 350 firms over the
>1995 -2000 period. Each firm has a minimum of three consecutive years
>of data. This is the dynamic model:
>
>y_it = y_it-1 , x1_it , x2_it , x3_it, alpha_i alpha_t uit
>
>where alpha_1 and alpha_t represent firm-specific effects and
>time-effects,
>
>
>All this given, I have two different questions:
>
>1) In my specification, all variables should be treated as endogenous
>and time dummies are included among the independent variables. In
>particular, y_it-2, x1_it-2 , x2_it-2 , x3_it-2 should be used as
>instruments. I'm asking whether the following command string is correct
>in this case. Using the One Step Robust GMM System estimator
>(xtabond2), I should write:
>
>xi:xtabond2 y l.y x1 x2 x3 i.year, robust gmm(y x1 x2 x3, lag(2 2))
>
>Is ii right or incomplete?
>
>- ----------------------------
>
>2) In the (applied) econometrics article from which I have borrowed
>such procedure, I also read this important note:
>
>"I [the author] have investigated whether the explanatory variables are
>predetermined or strictly exogenous with respect to the error term. To
>do this, I started using instruments dated t-2 for each regressor.
>Later, I added the instrument dated t-1 to analyze the potential bias
>arising from the correlation between x_it-1 and the first-differenced
>error term, delta_uit . To investigate the possibility of strict
>exogeneity we also included the current value, x_it in the instrument
>set. This investigation leads me to conclude that the explanatory
>variables are neither predetermined nor strictly exogenous. I,
>therefore, use instruments dated t-2 in our estimation."
>
>** With respect to the model above, what concrete steps I should do to
>follow this sentence? When the author say that "we added the instrument
>dated t-1 to analyze the potential bias arising from the correlation
>between x_it-1 and the first-differenced error term, delta_uit ", it is
>unclear to me how (and where) he actually analyze the "potential bias"
>between x_it-1 and the first-differenced error term. Is there an
>automatically generated statistics to see? Or something else? And how I
>should modify (step by step) the gmm style options? Cookbook
>suggestions would be very useful, too.
>
>
>Can anybody offer any assistance to solve these problems?
>
>Looking forward to any response, thank you in advance.
>
>Yours faithfully,
>
>Robert Brienza,
>Bocconi U. (Milan, Italy)
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