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Asymptotic F-Test in a GMM Framework with Cross-Sectional Dependence

The Review of Economics and Statistics 2015 97(1), 210-223
The paper develops an asymptotically valid F-test that is robust to spatial autocorrelation in a GMM framework. The validity of the F-test is established under mild conditions that can accommodate a wide range of spatial processes. The proposed F-test is very easy to implement, as critical values are from a standard F-distribution. The F-test achieves triple robustness: it is asymptotically valid regardless of the spatial autocorrelation, the sampling region, and the limiting behavior of the smoothing parameter. Simulation also shows that the F-test has good size and power properties in finite samples.