@article{Davidson:274643, recid = {274643}, author = {Davidson, Russell and MacKinnon, James G.}, title = {Bootstrap tests for overidentification in linear regression models}, address = {2014-04}, number = {2110-2018-4453}, series = {Working Paper No. 1318}, pages = {42}, year = {2014}, abstract = {Little attention has been paid to the nite-sample properties of tests for overidentifying restrictions in linear regression models with a single endogenous regressor and weak instruments. We study several such tests in models estimated by instrumental variables (IV) and limited-information maximum likelihood (LIML). Under the assumption of Gaussian disturbances, we derive expressions for a variety of test statistics as functions of eight mutually independent random variables and two nuisance parameters. The distributions of the statistics are shown to have an ill-dened limit as the parameter that determines the strength of the instruments tends to zero and as the correlation between the disturbances of the structural and reduced-form equations tends to plus or minus one. Simulation experiments demonstrate that this makes it impossible to perform reliable inference near the point at which the limit is ill-dened. Several bootstrap procedures are proposed. They alleviate the problem and allow reliable inference when the instruments are not too weak. We also study the power properties of the bootstrap tests.}, url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/274643}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.274643}, }