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ROBUST ESTIMATION FOR THE SPATIAL AUTOREGRESSIVE MODEL

Tuo Liu et al.

Econometric Theory2026https://doi.org/10.1017/s0266466626100346article
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Abstract

This article proposes and studies two Huber-type estimation approaches, namely, the Huber instrumental variable (IV) estimation and the Huber generalized method of moments (GMM) estimation, for a spatial autoregressive model. We establish the consistency, asymptotic distributions, finite sample breakdown points, and influence functions of these estimators. Simulation studies show that compared to the corresponding traditional estimators (the two-stage least squares estimator, the best IV estimator, and the GMM estimator), our estimators are more robust when the unknown disturbances are long-tailed, and our estimators only lose a little efficiency when the disturbances are short-tailed. Moreover, the Huber GMM estimator also outperforms several robust estimators in the literature. Finally, we apply our estimation method to investigate the impact of the urban heat island effect on housing prices. A package is published on GitHub for practitioners to use in their empirical studies.

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@article{tuo2026,
  title        = {{ROBUST ESTIMATION FOR THE SPATIAL AUTOREGRESSIVE MODEL}},
  author       = {Tuo Liu et al.},
  journal      = {Econometric Theory},
  year         = {2026},
  doi          = {https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1017/s0266466626100346},
}

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