Homogeneity pursuit in panel data models: Theory and application

• Main Authors: WANG, Wuyi, PHILLIPS, Peter C. B., SU, Liangjun
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2018
• Subjects: CARDS; Clustering; Heterogeneous slopes; Income and democracy; Minimum wage and employment; Oracle estimator; Panel structure model; Econometrics
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soe_research/2189; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soe_research/article/3188/viewcontent/Homogeneity_pursuit_in_panel_data_models_2016_pp.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

This paper studies the estimation of a panel data model with latent structures where individuals can be classified into different groups with the slope parameters being homogeneous within the same group but heterogeneous across groups. To identify the unknown group structure of vector parameters, we...