Question: Suppose a Ph.D. student has a sample (Yi ,Xi ,Zi : i 1, ...,n) and estimates by OLS the equation Y Z X0e

Suppose a Ph.D. student has a sample (Yi ,Xi ,Zi : i Æ 1, ...,n) and estimates by OLS the equation Y Æ Z®Å X0¯Åe where ® is the coefficient of interest. She is interested in testing H0 : ® Æ 0 against H1 : ® 6Æ 0. She obtains b®

Æ 2.0 with standard error s(b®) Æ 1.0 so the value of the t-ratio for H0 is T Æ b®/s(b®) Æ 2.0. To assess significance, the student decides to use the bootstrap. She uses the following algorithm 1. Samples (Y ¤

i ,X¤

i ,Z¤

i ) randomly from the observations. (Random sampling with replacement).

Creates a randomsample with n observations.

2. On this pseudo-sample, estimates the equation Y ¤

i

Æ Z¤

i ®ÅX¤0 i ¯Åe¤

i by OLS and computes standard errors, including s(b®

¤). The t-ratio for H0, T ¤ Æb®

¤/s(b®

¤) is computed and stored.

3. This is repeated B Æ 10,000 times.

4. The 0.95th empirical quantile q¤

.95

Æ 3.5 of the bootstrap absolute t-ratios jT ¤j is computed.

5. The student notes that while jT j Æ 2 È 1.96 (and thus an asymptotic 5% size test rejects H0), jT j Æ

2 Ç q¤

.95

Æ 3.5 and thus the bootstrap test does not reject H0. As the bootstrap is more reliable, the student concludes that H0 cannot be rejected in favor of H1.

Question: Do you agreewith the student’smethod and reasoning? Do you see an error in her method?

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