Varying Coefficient Panel Data Model with Interactive Fixed Effects

In this paper, we propose a varying coefficient panel data model with unobservable multiple interactive fixed effects that are correlated with the regressors. We approximate each coefficient function by B-spline, and propose a robust nonlinear iteration scheme based on the least squares method to estimate the coefficient functions of interest. We also establish the asymptotic theory of the resulting estimators under certain regularity assumptions, including the consistency, the convergence rate and the asymptotic distribution. Furthermore, we develop a least squares dummy variable method to study an important special case of the proposed model: the varying coefficient panel data model with additive fixed effects. To construct the pointwise confidence intervals for the coefficient functions, a residual-based block bootstrap method is proposed to reduce the computational burden as well as to avoid the accumulative errors. Simulation studies and a real data analysis are also carried out to assess the performance of our proposed methods.

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