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In this paper we analyse the consequences of model overidentification on testing exogeneity, when maximum likelihood techniques for estimation and inference are used. This situation is viewed as a particular case of the more general problem of considering how restrictions on nuisance parameters could help in making inference on the parameters of interest. At first a general model is considered. A suitable likelihood function factorization is used which allows a simple derivation of the information matrix and others tools useful for building up joint tests of exogeneity and overidentifying restrictions both of Wald and Lagrange Multiplier type. The asymptotic local power of the exogeneity test in the justidentified model is compared with that in the overidentified one, when we assume that the latter is the true model. Then the pseudo-likelihood framework is used to derive the consequences of working with a model where overidentifying restrictions are erroneously imposed. The inconsistency introduced by imposing false restrictions is analysed and the consequences of the misspecification on the exogeneity test are carefully examined.
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Cappuccio, N., Orsi, R. Testing exogeneity in overidentified models. J. It. Statist. Soc. 1, 203–225 (1992). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02589031
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