CFDP 1960R2
On the Choice of Test Statistic for Conditional Moment Inequalities
Author(s):Publication Date: October 2014
Revision Date: July 2017
Pages: 45
Abstract:
This paper derives asymptotic approximations to the power of Cramer-von Mises (CvM) style tests for inference on a finite dimensional parameter defined by conditional moment inequalities in the case where the parameter is set identified. Combined with power results for Kolmogorov-Smirnov (KS) tests, these results can be used to choose the optimal test statistic, weighting function and, for tests based on kernel estimates, kernel bandwidth. The results show that, in the setting considered here, KS tests are preferred to CvM tests, and that a truncated variance weighting is preferred to bounded weightings.
Supplemental Material: Supplemental material
Supplement pages: 17
Keywords:
Moment inequalities, Relative efficiency
JEL Classification Codes: C10, C12, C14