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COWLES FOUNDATION DISCUSSION PAPER NO. 1533 Testing for Non-nested Conditional Moment Restrictions Taisuke Otsu September 2005 We propose non-nested tests for competing conditional moment restriction models using a method of empirical likelihood. Our tests are based on the method of conditional empirical likelihood developed by Kitamura, Tripathi and Ahn (2004) and Zhang and Gijbels (2003). By using the conditional implied probabilities, we develop three non-nested tests: the moment encompassing, Cox-type, and efficient score encompassing tests. Compared to the existing non-nested tests which mainly focus on testing unconditional moment restrictions, our approach directly tests conditional moment restrictions which imply the infinite number of unconditional moment restrictions. We derive the null distributions and power properties of the proposed tests. Simulation experiments show that our tests have reasonable finite sample properties. Keywords: Empirical likelihood; Non-nested tests; Encompassing tests; Cox-type tests; Conditional moment restrictions JEL Classification: C12, C13, C14, C22 Key words and phrases: JEL Classification: |
