On Fri, 20 Jul 2012, Rodrigo Alfaro Arancibia wrote:

> Please note from EViews' manual: "EViews estimates the model as a
> nonlinear regression model (...), require specification of additional
> instruments to satisfy the instrument order condition for the transformed
> specification. By default, the first-stage instruments employed in TSLS are
> formed as if one were running Cochrane-Orcutt using Fair’s prescription."
>
> Therefore you cannot replicate the results using 2SLS in gretl or
> other software given that 2SLS are linear models. The fact that EViews
> does a nonlinear regression is rooted in the Cochrane-Orcutt procedure
> which, in the standard LS context, imposes constraints on the coefficients.

You _can_ replicate them in gretl: actually, from what you describe you 
have the choice of using

a) the nls command
b) the mle command
c) the gmm command

Only, it's a lot more work. But if you had the absolute necessity of 
replicating Eviews' algorithm, it's perfectly possible.

> I agree with Sven and Jack that you could add more lags to your model
> in order to deal with the "AR(1)-problem". Also, note that EViews' approach
> is based on Fair (1970) solution. For sure there are more recent papers
> regarding this issue.

Does it sound very silly to agree with someone who agrees with you?


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  Dipartimento di Economia

  Università Politecnica delle Marche
  (formerly known as Università di Ancona)

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