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 Title: Model specification tests with misspecified alternatives: Some robust and simultaneous approaches Author(s): Yoon, Mann Joong Doctoral Committee Chair(s): Bera, Anil K. Department / Program: Economics Discipline: Economics Degree Granting Institution: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Degree: Ph.D. Genre: Dissertation Subject(s): Economics, Theory Abstract: It is well known that most of the standard specification tests are not robust when the alternative is misspecified. We consider the three types of typical misspecification encountered in econometric model specification testing, namely, complete misspecification, underspecification, and overspecification. In the case of complete misspecification the distribution under the alternative hypothesis does not belong to the data generating process (DGP), while underspecification refers to the alternative being a subset of a more general model representing the DGP. Overspecification is the case when the alternative hypothesis is overstated. Most likely, the first two types of misspecification are common in one-directional testing situation whereas the last one happens when multi-directional joint tests are applied based on an overparametrized alternative model. Following Haavelmo's work, we provide a simple example to illustrate the effects of misspecification on testing economic hypothesis. Then we find the asymptotic distributions of standard one-directional and multi-directional Lagrange multiplier (LM) tests under these three kinds of misspecification. The asymptotic relative efficiency (ARE) of the misspecified tests are also evaluated. Next using these distributions, we suggest a robust specification test under misspecified alternatives. The new test is shown to be asymptotically equivalent to Neyman's $C(\alpha)$ test. Some applications are presented to illustrate our theoretical results.Turning to a simultaneous approach to model specification testing, we develop some joint tests of non-nested models and simultaneous departures from homoskedasticity, serial independence and normality of the disturbance terms. Locally equivalent alternative models are used to construct joint tests since they provide a convenient way to incorporate more than one type of departure from the classical conditions. The joint tests represent a simple asymptotic solution to the "pre-testing" problem in the context of non-nested linear regression models. Our simulation results indicate that the proposed tests have good finite sample properties. Issue Date: 1991 Type: Text Language: English URI: http://hdl.handle.net/2142/22845 Rights Information: Copyright 1991 Yoon, Mann Joong Date Available in IDEALS: 2011-05-07 Identifier in Online Catalog: AAI9211051 OCLC Identifier: (UMI)AAI9211051
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