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