Santos Silva, Joao M C and Tenreyro, Silvana (2009) Further Simulation Evidence on the Performance of the Poisson Pseudo-Maximum Likelihood Estimator. Working Paper. Centre for Economic Performance, LSE, CEP Discussion Papers.
Santos Silva, Joao M C and Tenreyro, Silvana (2009) Further Simulation Evidence on the Performance of the Poisson Pseudo-Maximum Likelihood Estimator. Working Paper. Centre for Economic Performance, LSE, CEP Discussion Papers.
Santos Silva, Joao M C and Tenreyro, Silvana (2009) Further Simulation Evidence on the Performance of the Poisson Pseudo-Maximum Likelihood Estimator. Working Paper. Centre for Economic Performance, LSE, CEP Discussion Papers.
Abstract
We extend the simulation results given in Santos-Silva and Tenreyro (2006, 'The Log of Gravity', The Review of Economics and Statistics, 88, pp.641-658) by considering data generated as a finite mixture of gamma variates. Data generated in this way can naturally have a large proportion of zeros and is fully compatible with constant elasticity models such as the gravity equation. Our results confirm that the Poisson pseudo maximum likelihood estimator is generally well behaved.
| Item Type: | Monograph (Working Paper) |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Gravity equation; Heteroskedasticity; Jensens inequality |
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HB Economic Theory |
| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Economics, Department of |
| Depositing User: | Jim Jamieson |
| Date Deposited: | 07 Aug 2012 11:15 |
| Last Modified: | 07 Aug 2012 11:15 |
| URI: | http://repository.essex.ac.uk/id/eprint/3545 |