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  • Cross-country IV Regressions

    Hello,

    I am trying to see whether financial development (measured as liquid liabilities divided to GDP) has an effect on the convergence between countries. For that purpose, I have generated an interaction term "linitial_LL".
    I am using Cross-country IV Regressions to address the problem of endogeneity that comes from the initial value of growth of real GDP per capita. The results below come with two tests: Hasen J test and Underidentification test. I know that my Hansen test shows that the instruments used are not correlated with residuals. Nonetheless, I am not entirely sure about the interpretation of Underidentification test and whether it shows that I can accept my results. Can somebody help me with the interpretation?


    ivreg2h gr linitial log_infl log_trade log_govsize log_school (linitial_LL Lliab Lliab2=) , gmm2s robust

    Too few excluded instruments: standard IV model not estimable

    IV with Generated Instruments only

    Instruments created from Z:
    linitial log_infl log_trade log_govsize log_school

    2-Step GMM estimation


    Estimates efficient for arbitrary heteroskedasticity
    Statistics robust to heteroskedasticity

    Number of obs = 37
    F( 8, 28) = 25.52
    Prob > F = 0.0000
    Total (centered) SS = 44.63952131 Centered R2 = 0.6601
    Total (uncentered) SS = 161.3884031 Uncentered R2 = 0.9060
    Residual SS = 15.17405041 Root MSE = .6404


    Robust
    gr Coef. Std. Err. z P>z [95% Conf. Interval]

    linitial_LL .2557908 .0572746 4.47 0.000 .1435346 .368047
    Lliab -3.93395 .8873929 -4.43 0.000 -5.673208 -2.194692
    Lliab2 .4522403 .1071857 4.22 0.000 .2421603 .6623204
    linitial -1.084343 .2176225 -4.98 0.000 -1.510875 -.6578104
    log_infl -.2873005 .056014 -5.13 0.000 -.3970859 -.1775151
    log_trade .6776841 .0998588 6.79 0.000 .4819644 .8734038
    log_govsize -1.101553 .3356589 -3.28 0.001 -1.759432 -.4436736
    log_school 2.787074 .3847577 7.24 0.000 2.032963 3.541185
    _cons 10.33173 2.546661 4.06 0.000 5.340368 15.3231

    Underidentification test (Kleibergen-Paap rk LM statistic): 14.632
    Chi-sq(13) P-val = 0.3309

    Weak identification test (Cragg-Donald Wald F statistic): 3.029
    (Kleibergen-Paap rk Wald F statistic): 10.108
    Stock-Yogo weak ID test critical values: 5% maximal IV relative bias 18.73
    10% maximal IV relative bias 10.33
    20% maximal IV relative bias 5.94
    30% maximal IV relative bias 4.37
    Source: Stock-Yogo (2005). Reproduced by permission.
    NB: Critical values are for Cragg-Donald F statistic and i.i.d. errors.

    Hansen J statistic (overidentification test of all instruments): 8.213
    Chi-sq(12) P-val = 0.7683

    Instrumented: linitial_LL Lliab Lliab2
    Included instruments: linitial log_infl log_trade log_govsize log_school
    Excluded instruments: linitial_LL_linitial_g linitial_LL_log_infl_g
    linitial_LL_log_trade_g linitial_LL_log_govsize_g
    linitial_LL_log_school_g Lliab_linitial_g Lliab_log_infl_g
    Lliab_log_trade_g Lliab_log_govsize_g Lliab_log_school_g
    Lliab2_linitial_g Lliab2_log_infl_g Lliab2_log_trade_g
    Lliab2_log_govsize_g Lliab2_log_school_g

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