Simulation Testing of Three Approaches in Estimating Unknown Parameters of Structure Models

This paper examines the performance of three different approaches in estimating the firm parameters of structure models by simulation, including the simultaneous equation system approach, maximum likelihood estimation approach and the iteration approach. The simulation results show that iteration approach has smaller estimation errors than the other two approaches and thus performs the best.

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