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Working Paper

On Testing for Sphericity with Non-normality in a Fixed Effects Panel Data Model

Badi H. Baltagi, Chihwa Kao & Bin Peng

C.P.R. Working Paper No. 176

November 2014

Badi H. Baltagi

Badi H. Baltagi


Chihwa Kao

Chihwa Kao


Abstract

Building upon the work of Chen et al. (2010), this paper proposes a test for sphericity of the variance-covariance matrix in a fixed effects panel data regression model without the normality assumption on the disturbances.

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