Abstract:
For
m(≥3) seemingly unrleated regression equations:
yi =
Xiβi+
εi,(
i=1,…,
m), with
P1 =… =
Pk,
Pk+1 =… =
Ps,
Ps+1 =… =
Pm and
P1 =
Ps+
Pm, where
Pi =
Xi(
X'iXi)
-1X'i,the exact finite sample covariance matrix of Zellner’s two-step Aitken estimator
~βi of
βi(
i =1…,
m), based on the unrestricted estimate S of ∑ = (σ
ij ) are obtained.When
m = 3, all the three
~βi (
i = 1, 2, 3) are shown to be more efficient then the OLS estimators of
βi, for moderate departures of \rho_i j^2=\sigma_i j^2 / \sigma_i i \sigma_j j from zero, and the efficiencies are shown to be increased with the sample size n. These results can be compared with those obtained by Revankar(1974)for a system of 2SUR with
X1=(
X2,
L)