# Replicate Alastair Hall's estimation of the Hansen-Singleton # Consumption-Based Asset Pricing model. See Hall's "Generalized # Method of Moments" (Oxford University Press, 2005, chapter 3). open hall.gdt set force_hc on scalar alpha = 0.5 scalar delta = 0.5 series e = 0 list inst = const consrat(-1) consrat(-2) ewr(-1) ewr(-2) matrix V0 = 100000*I(nelem(inst)) matrix Z = { inst } matrix V1 = $nobs*inv(Z'Z) # one-step estimation, identity matrix for initial weights gmm e = delta*ewr*consrat^(alpha-1) - 1 orthog e ; inst weights V0 params alpha delta end gmm # one-step estimation, T(Z'Z)^{-1} for initial weights gmm e = delta*ewr*consrat^(alpha-1) - 1 orthog e ; inst weights V1 params alpha delta end gmm # iterated estimation, identity matrix for initial weights gmm e = delta*ewr*consrat^(alpha-1) - 1 orthog e ; inst weights V0 params alpha delta end gmm --iterate # iterated estimation, T(Z'Z)^{-1} for initial weights gmm e = delta*ewr*consrat^(alpha-1) - 1 orthog e ; inst weights V1 params alpha delta end gmm --iterate