NUCLEAR NORM REGULARIZED QUANTILE REGRESSION WITH INTERACTIVE FIXED EFFECTS

This paper studies large N and large T conditional quantile panel data models with interactive fixed effects. We propose a nuclear norm penalized estimator of the coefficients on the covariates and the low-rank matrix formed by the interactive fixed effects. The estimator solves a convex minimizatio...

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Published in:Econometric theory 2024-12, Vol.40 (6), p.1391-1421
Main Author: Feng, Junlong
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adultery
Data models
Econometrics
Estimates
Minimization
Panel data
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Summary:This paper studies large N and large T conditional quantile panel data models with interactive fixed effects. We propose a nuclear norm penalized estimator of the coefficients on the covariates and the low-rank matrix formed by the interactive fixed effects. The estimator solves a convex minimization problem, not requiring pre-estimation of the (number of) interactive fixed effects. It also allows the number of covariates to grow slowly with N and T. We derive an error bound on the estimator that holds uniformly in the quantile level. The order of the bound implies uniform consistency of the estimator and is nearly optimal for the low-rank component. Given the error bound, we also propose a consistent estimator of the number of interactive fixed effects at any quantile level. We demonstrate the performance of the estimator via Monte Carlo simulations.
ISSN:0266-4666
1469-4360
DOI:10.1017/S0266466623000129