Re: st: Fixed effects - not quite invariant variables?

[Guo Xu <digitalepourpre@gmail.com>]

Hi,

When regressors are not changing much (as in your case), FE is prone
to measurement errors - have a look at the discussion in these
applications, it may help:

Barro, Robert J. (2000) ‘Inequality and growth in a panel of
countries.’ Journal of Economic
Growth 5(1), 5—32

Banerjee and Duflo (2003) 'Inequality and Growth: What Can the Data Say?'

Guo


On 15 October 2012 09:17, fernando luiz mistura <f_mistura@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
> I have an unbalanced panel data with 180 observations. Data is for 56 countries for the years 1997, 2003, 2006, 2010. I want to see what is the effect of an Index variable of FDI restrictions that ranges between 0 and 1 in the level of countries' FDI. Under Pooled OLS and Random Effects, the index variable is significant as expected.
> My problem is with fixed effects. The index variable for some contries do not change, as countries have liberalised in a period earlier that the one covered. For other countries, there are either small or large changes. Hence, under Fixed Effects however, the Index variable is not significant and the coefficients smaller.
> Could someone please explain me if the FE would still be appropriate even with this type of semi-variant variable? And if this issue could be addressed with an Instrumentral variable approach (hausmann taylor) even if its not a endogenous variable?
> Many thanks
> Fernando
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