I'm doing my masters dissertation and I need to use GMM. So any help would be greatly appreciated! I used this code to do a twostep system GMM regression. However the variable EPUA is missing from the regression results. Any idea as to why it is not reported in the regression results?
Code:
xtabond2 ROA l.ROA CAR GDP INF EPUA CD NIM NII log_size y*, gmm(l.ROA CAR, collapse) /// > iv(GDP EPUA CD NII NIM log_size y*, equation(level)) /// > twostep robust small Result: Dynamic panel-data estimation, two-step system GMM ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Group variable: Bankid Number of obs = 240 Time variable : Year Number of groups = 30 Number of instruments = 29 Obs per group: min = 8 F(13, 29) = 75.41 avg = 8.00 Prob > F = 0.000 max = 8 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | Corrected ROA | Coefficient std. err. t P>|t| [95% conf. interval] -------------+---------------------------------------------------------------- ROA | L1. | .3854601 .124757 3.09 0.004 .1303034 .6406168 | CAR | .1199078 .0874612 1.37 0.181 -.0589705 .298786 GDP | .0158384 .0266463 0.59 0.557 -.0386595 .0703363 CD | -.0077469 .0096876 -0.80 0.430 -.0275603 .0120665 NIM | .517398 .1863238 2.78 0.010 .136323 .8984731 NII | -.120203 .2280859 -0.53 0.602 -.586691 .346285 log_size | .0895814 .0584982 1.53 0.137 -.0300608 .2092236 yr2 | .2715365 .1442631 1.88 0.070 -.0235145 .5665876 yr4 | .080147 .2339625 0.34 0.734 -.3983599 .558654 yr5 | -.3087375 .1554316 -1.99 0.057 -.6266308 .0091558 yr6 | -.3764509 .2177563 -1.73 0.094 -.8218125 .0689107 yr7 | -.3467422 .2744191 -1.26 0.216 -.9079922 .2145079 yr9 | -.2506425 .4130149 -0.61 0.549 -1.095353 .5940677 _cons | -4.706079 2.067006 -2.28 0.030 -8.93358 -.4785776 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Instruments for first differences equation GMM-type (missing=0, separate instruments for each period unless collapsed) L(1/8).(L.ROA CAR) collapsed Instruments for levels equation Standard GDP CD NII EPUA NIM log_size yr1 yr2 yr3 yr4 yr5 yr6 yr7 yr8 yr9 _cons GMM-type (missing=0, separate instruments for each period unless collapsed) D.(L.ROA CAR) collapsed ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arellano-Bond test for AR(1) in first differences: z = -2.70 Pr > z = 0.007 Arellano-Bond test for AR(2) in first differences: z = -0.20 Pr > z = 0.838 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Sargan test of overid. restrictions: chi2(15) = 9.82 Prob > chi2 = 0.831 (Not robust, but not weakened by many instruments.) Hansen test of overid. restrictions: chi2(15) = 17.74 Prob > chi2 = 0.277 (Robust, but weakened by many instruments.) Difference-in-Hansen tests of exogeneity of instrument subsets: GMM instruments for levels Hansen test excluding group: chi2(13) = 8.87 Prob > chi2 = 0.783 Difference (null H = exogenous): chi2(2) = 8.87 Prob > chi2 = 0.012 iv(GDP CD NII EPUA NIM log_size yr1 yr2 yr3 yr4 yr5 yr6 yr7 yr8 yr9, eq(level)) Hansen test excluding group: chi2(3) = 1.52 Prob > chi2 = 0.678 Difference (null H = exogenous): chi2(12) = 16.22 Prob > chi2 = 0.181