Frequentist Shrinkage under Inequality Constraints
This paper shows how to shrink extremum estimators towards inequality constraints motivated by economic theory. We propose an Inequality Constrained Shrinkage Estimator (ICSE) which takes the form of a weighted average between the unconstrained and inequality constrained estimators with the data dependent weight. The weight drives both the direction and degree of shrinkage. We use a local asymptotic framework to derive the asymptotic distribution and risk of the ICSE. We provide conditions under which the asymptotic risk of the ICSE is strictly less than that of the unrestricted extremum estimator. The degree of shrinkage cannot be consistently estimated under the local asymptotic framework. To address this issue, we propose a feasible plug-in estimator and investigate its finite sample behavior. We also apply our framework to gasoline demand estimation under the Slutsky restriction.
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