On Wed, 22 May 2013, Pindar wrote: > Ok, I see, the 20% cannot be the right p- value. Does someone use Stata to > check what the newest xtabond2 says? > > U seem to have some experience with dpanel estimation. What do u think > about that: If I have a 12x412 panel is it then ok to use 225 > instruments or should one stay near 100 instruments?
If you ask me, 225 orthogonality conditions is a sure recipe for disaster, unless you have 10 billion observations or more. The conventional wisdom among practitioners is that should never use all available instruments when doing panel GMM, unless your T is very small. You may want to read Roodman (2009), Oxford Bulletin. ------------------------------------------------------- Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche e Sociali (DiSES) Università Politecnica delle Marche (formerly known as Università di Ancona) r.lucchetti(a)univpm.it http://www2.econ.univpm.it/servizi/hpp/lucchetti -------------------------------------------------------
