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This paper studies serial correlation testing for a general three-dimensional panel data model. As a step for hypothesis testing, the robust within estimation of parameter coefficients is investigated, and shown to asymptotically consistent and normal under some mild conditions. A residual-based statistic is then constructed to test for serial correlation in the idiosyncratic errors, which is based on the parameter estimates for an artificial autoregression modeled by centering and differencing residuals. The test can be shown to asymptotically chisquare distributed under the null hypothesis. Power study shows that the test can detect local alternatives distinct at the parametric rate from the null hypothesis. The test needs no distribution assumptions of the error components, and is robust to the misspecification of various specific effects. Monte Carlo simulations are carried out for illustration.
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Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 11671263).
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Wu, Jh., Ding, Q. & Qin, Jx. Testing for serial correlation in three-dimensional panel data models. Acta Math. Appl. Sin. Engl. Ser. 33, 239–250 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10255-017-0654-5
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