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We give a simple sufficient condition for consistency of the standard OLS-based estimate of the disturbance variance in the linear regression model with autocorrelated disturbances.
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Research supported by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG). We are grateful to B. M. Poetscher for a generous supply of counterexamples.
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Krämer, W., Berghoff, S. Consistency ofs 2 in the linear regression model with correlated errors. Empirical Economics 16, 375–377 (1991). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01206283
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