* Restricted Investment Equation * * Keywords: * regression, ols, log, investment, equation, restricted, test * * Description: * We illustrate how to estimate an Investment Equation with various * restrictions on it and how to test these restrictions * * Author(s): * Noel Roy * Skif Pankov * * Source: * William H. Greene, Econometric Analysis - 7th Edition * Pearson International Edition, Chapter 5, Example 5.3 (page 160) * * Reading the datafile and naming the variables, specifying to ignore the * first line of the file read (TableF5-2.shd) year qtr realgdp realcons realinvs realgovt realdpi & cpi m1 i unemp pop deltap realint / skiplines=1 * Setting the first time period to be equal to year 1950 with periodicity of * one quarter time 1950.1 4 sample 1950.2 2000.4 * Generating variables genr lni=log(realinvs) genr lny=log(realgdp) genr t=time(-1) * Estimating the restricted model (since realint=i-deltap) ols lni realint lny t * Estimating the unrestricted model, which has both i and deltap instead * of realint. ols lni i deltap lny t /pcov * Testing the null hypothesis that b2+b3=0, which is equivalent to the * restricted model * test i+deltap = 0 * Testing the restricted model directly ols lni realint deltap lny t * Testing the joint hypothesis that b2+b3=1, b4=1 and b5=0 are true ?ols lni i deltap lny t test test i+deltap test lny=1 test t end * Testing the three restrictions one at a time with simple test commands * test i+deltap test lny=1 test t stop