By Douglas A Schroeder
While there's a massive literature in hard work economics and microeconometrics directed towards endogenous causal results, causal results have bought rather restricted cognizance in accounting. This quantity builds on econometric foundations, together with linear, discrete selection, and nonparametric regression types, to deal with tough accounting concerns characterised via microeconomic basics and equilibrium reporting offerings. either classical and Bayesian innovations for selecting and estimating accounting therapy results are mentioned generally. This unique source for researchers and scholars explores interactions between concept, facts, and version specification concerns, and enhances modern econometrics and information, in addition to accounting.
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3. produces σ 2∗∗ 2 Asymmetric information reduces report precision and lowers the owner’s satisfaction. 3 Regulated precision choice and transaction design Asymmetric information produces a demand or opportunity for regulation. Assuming the regulator can identify the report precision preferred by the owner σ 2∗ 2 , full compliance with regulated inverse-precision ˆb restores the benchmark solution. However, the owner may still exploit her private information even if it is costly to design transactions which appear to meet the regulatory standard when in fact they do not.
1 Y = Γ−1 (Xβ + ε) and Γ−1 ε ∼ (0, I) 22 3. Linear models −1 −1 = I. Now, OLS applied = Γ−1 ΓΓT ΓT since Γ−1 0 = 0 and Γ−1 Σ ΓT −1 to the regression of Γ Y (in place of Y ) onto Γ−1 X (in place of X) yields bGLS bGLS T = Γ−1 X = X T Γ−1 = X T Σ−1 X −1 Γ−1 X T Γ−1 X −1 Γ−1 X −1 T Γ−1 Y X T Γ−1 T Γ−1 Y X T Σ−1 Y (Aitken estimator) Hence, OLS regression of suitably transformed variables is equivalent to GLS regression, the minimum variance linear unbiased estimator for the above DGP. OLS is unbiased for the above DGP (but inefficient), E [b] = β + EX −1 XT X X T E [ε | X] = β However, V ar [b | X] is not the standard one described above.
To see that OLS is inconsistent when the cross-sectional effects are correlated with the errors consider the complementary between-groups estimator. A betweengroups estimator only utilizes the variation among group means. β BG = X T PD X −1 X T PD Y The between-groups estimator is inconsistent if the (cross-sectional) group means are correlated with the regressors. Further, since the OLS estimator can be written as a matrix-weighted average of the within-groups and between-groups estimators, if the between-groups estimator is inconsistent, OLS (without fixed effects) is inconsistent as demonstrated below.