Impossibility Results for Nondifferentiable Functionals

  1. Keisuke Hirano1,
  2. Jack R. Porter2,†

Article first published online: 25 JUL 2012

DOI: 10.3982/ECTA8681

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Econometrica

Econometrica

Volume 80, Issue 4, pages 1769–1790, July 2012

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Hirano, K. and Porter, J. R. (2012), Impossibility Results for Nondifferentiable Functionals. Econometrica, 80: 1769–1790. doi: 10.3982/ECTA8681

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  1. 1

    Dept. of Economics, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, U.S.A.; hirano@u.arizona.edu

  2. 2

    Dept. of Economics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706, U.S.A.; jrporter@ssc.wisc.edu

  1. †

    Early versions of this paper were titled “Impossibility Results for Bounds Estimation.” We are grateful to Donald Andrews, Matias Cattaneo, Gary Chamberlain, Jinyong Hahn, Bruce Hansen, Bo Honore, Guido Imbens, Karthik Kalyanaraman, Francesca Molinari, Marcelo Moreira, Ariel Pakes, Thomas Richardson, Jamie Robins, Kevin Song, two referees, the co-editor, and numerous seminar participants for helpful comments and suggestions. We thank the National Science Foundation for research support under Grants SES-0962488 (Hirano), SES-0962422 (Porter), and SES-0438123 (Porter).

  1. †

    Early versions of this paper were titled “Impossibility Results for Bounds Estimation.” We are grateful to Donald Andrews, Matias Cattaneo, Gary Chamberlain, Jinyong Hahn, Bruce Hansen, Bo Honore, Guido Imbens, Karthik Kalyanaraman, Francesca Molinari, Marcelo Moreira, Ariel Pakes, Thomas Richardson, Jamie Robins, Kevin Song, two referees, the co-editor, and numerous seminar participants for helpful comments and suggestions. We thank the National Science Foundation for research support under Grants SES-0962488 (Hirano), SES-0962422 (Porter), and SES-0438123 (Porter).

Publication History

  1. Issue published online: 25 JUL 2012
  2. Article first published online: 25 JUL 2012
  3. Manuscript received July, 2009; final revision received November, 2011.

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