Anderson-Hsiao Instrumental Variables Estimator

The Anderson-Hsiao IV estimator is a method for consistently estimating dynamic panel data models that include a lagged dependent variable as a regressor. Proposed by Theodore Anderson and Cheng Hsiao in 1981, it resolves the Nickell bias that arises when fixed effects are eliminated by first-differencing, by instrumenting the differenced lagged dependent variable with its own second lag in levels or differences.