RE: st: RE: Error Message after "cluster" with "xtabond2"

["Schaffer, Mark E" <M.E.Schaffer@hw.ac.uk>]

Erasmo,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu 
> [mailto:owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu] On Behalf Of 
> Erasmo Giambona
> Sent: Wednesday, September 09, 2009 2:38 PM
> To: statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
> Subject: Re: st: RE: Error Message after "cluster" with "xtabond2"
> 
> Thanks. Here it is:
> 
> . update
> 
> Stata executable
>     folder:               C:\Program Files\Stata9\
>     name of file:         wsestata.exe
>     currently installed:  20 Jul 2007
> 
> Ado-file updates
>     folder:               C:\Program Files\Stata9\ado\updates\
>     names of files:       (various)
>     currently installed:  20 Jul 2007
> 
> Recommendation
>     Type -update query- to compare these dates with what is 
> available from
>     http://www.stata.com.

Did you follow the recommendation above?

--Mark

> On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 3:29 PM, Schaffer, Mark 
> E<M.E.Schaffer@hw.ac.uk> wrote:
> > Erasmo,
> >
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
> >> [mailto:owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu] On Behalf Of
> >> Erasmo Giambona
> >> Sent: Wednesday, September 09, 2009 2:21 PM
> >> To: statalist
> >> Subject: st: Error Message after "cluster" with "xtabond2"
> >>
> >> Dear David Roodman/Statalisters,
> >>
> >> For some reasons, I cannot get the code below with the 
> cluster option
> >> to run in my laptop. I get the following error message: 
> cluster(gvkey)
> >> invalid. Now, the exact same code works in my office 
> computer. I have
> >> the following version of xtabond2 in the laptop:
> >>
> >> . which xtabond2
> >> c:\ado\plus\x\xtabond2.ado
> >> *! xtabond2 2.8.2 16 March 2009
> >> *! David Roodman, Center for Global Development, Washington,
> >> DC, www.cgdev.org
> >> *! Copyright David Roodman 2004-09. May be distributed free.
> >
> > You also need to tell us which Stata you are running.  The -update-
> > command will tell you the details.
> >
> > --Mark
> >
> >>
> >> Hany suggestions on what might be causing the problem?
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >>
> >> Erasmo
> >>
> >>
> >> Code:
> >>
> >> xtabond2 lev2 unsecured_debt unsecured_growth2 growth_mb
> >> tangib1_classic  ln_size3bis profit1  abn_earnings vol_johnson
> >> dinv_taxcredit doploss_forward totdebt_rating
> >> > ln_age regulated_firm yr85 yr86 yr87 yr88 yr89 yr90 yr91
> >> yr92 yr93 yr94  yr95 yr96 yr97 yr98 yr99 yr00 yr01  yr02 yr03
> >> yr04 yr05, gmmstyle(( unsecured_debt unsecured_g
> >> > rowth2 growth_mb tangib1_classic  ln_size3bis profit1
> >> abn_earnings vol_johnson ), laglimits(4 6) c  )
> >> ivstyle(l(1)(unsecured_debt unsecured_growth2 growth_mb tangib1
> >> > _classic  ln_size3bis profit1  abn_earnings vol_johnson ),
> >> equation(level)) robust  ar(5) cluster(gvkey)
> >> *
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> >>
> >
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