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Modal Regression for Fixed Effects Panel Data

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  • Aman Ullah

    (Department of Economics, University of California Riverside)

  • Tao Wang

    (University of CaliforniaR iverside)

  • Weixin Yao

    (University of California Riverside)

Abstract

Most research on panel data focuses on mean or quantile regression while there is not much research about regression methods based on the mode. In this paper, we propose a new model named fixed effects modal regression for panel data in which we model how the conditional mode of the response variable depends on the covariates, and employ a kernel based objective function to simplify the computation. The proposed modal regression can complement the mean and quantile regressions, and provide better central tendency measure and prediction performance when the data is skewed. We present a linear dummy modal regression (LDMR) method and a pseudo-demodeing two-step (PDTS) method to estimate the proposed modal regression. The computations can be easily implemented using a modified modal-expectation-maximization (MEM) algorithm. We investigate the asymptotic properties of the modal estimators under some mild regularity conditions when the number of individuals, N, and the number of time periods, T, go to infinity. The optimal bandwidths with order (NT)^-1/7 are obtained by minimizing the asymptotic weighted mean squared errors. Monte Carlo simulations and two real data analyses of a public capital productivity study and a carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions study are presented to demonstrate the finite sample performance of the newly proposed modal regression.

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  • Aman Ullah & Tao Wang & Weixin Yao, 2020. "Modal Regression for Fixed Effects Panel Data," Working Papers 202102, University of California at Riverside, Department of Economics, revised Nov 2020.
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    Keywords

    Asymptotic property; Fixed effects; MEM algorithm; Modal regression; Panel data; Estimation.;
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    JEL classification:

    • C01 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - General - - - Econometrics
    • C14 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Econometric and Statistical Methods and Methodology: General - - - Semiparametric and Nonparametric Methods: General
    • C23 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Single Equation Models; Single Variables - - - Models with Panel Data; Spatio-temporal Models
    • C51 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Econometric Modeling - - - Model Construction and Estimation

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