Abstract
It is well known that in standard linear regression models with independent and identically distributed data and homoskedasticity, adding irrelevant regressors® hurts (asymptotic) efficiency unless such irrelevant regressors are orthogonal to the remaining regressors. But we have found that under (conditional) heteroskedasticity irrelevant regressors® can always be found such that one can achieve the asymptotic variance of the generalized least squares estimator by adding the irrelevant regressors® to the model.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 298-301 |
Number of pages | 4 |
Journal | Econometric Theory |
Volume | 25 |
Issue number | 1 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Feb 2009 |
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Social Sciences (miscellaneous)
- Economics and Econometrics