Francesco,
How many clusters to you have? The asymptotics for the Hansen J-stat
with clustering, liked cluster-robust SEs and other test statistics,
requires the number of clusters to go off to infinity.
If you have very few clusters, you could well get very poor finite
sample performance for your J stat and indeed for all your other
cluster-robust statistics, including your SEs.
HTH,
Mark
Prof. Mark E. Schaffer FRSE
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School of Management & Languages
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected]
> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of
> Francesco Trivieri
> Sent: Monday, October 12, 2009 11:59 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: st: clustering with xtabond2
>
> Dear Maarten,
>
> thank you for your answer. Of course the p-value I was
> referring to is
> greater than 0.1 (and lower tha 0.2).
>
> Francesco
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Maarten buis" <[email protected]>
> To: <[email protected]>
> Sent: Monday, October 12, 2009 12:33 PM
> Subject: Re: st: clustering with xtabond2
>
>
> > --- On Mon, 12/10/09, Francesco Trivieri wrote:
> >> I'm using the xtabond2 command and the Hansen test of
> >> overid. restrictions is not significant, its p-value being
> >> always lower than 0.20 . When I cluster the observations,
> >> yet, the p-value is 1 or very close to it. Is the Hansen not
> >> reliable when clustering?
> >
> > I don't know the answer, but I do know that small p-values
> > (close to 0) indicate significant results, i.e. a rejection
> > of the null-hypothesis. Large p-values (close to 1) indicate
> > non-significant results, i.e. you are not able to reject
> > the null-hypothesis.
> >
> > (The limit .20 is very unusual, usualy .05 is chose and
> > sometimes .10 or .01)
> >
> > -- Maarten
> >
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