Implementing Box-Cox Quantile Regression
Authors:
Bernd Fitzenberger a;
Ralf A. Wilke b;
Xuan Zhang c
| Affiliations: | a Department of Economics, Albert Ludwigs-University Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany |
| b University of Nottingham, School of Economics, Nottingham, UK | |
| c Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Goethe-University Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany |
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10.1080/07474930903382166
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Abstract
The Box-Cox quantile regression model introduced by Powell (1991) is a flexible and numerically attractive extension of linear quantile regression techniques. Chamberlain (1994) and Buchinsky (1995) suggest a two stage estimator for this model but the objective function in stage two of their method may not be defined in an application. We suggest a modification of the estimator which is easy to implement. A simulation study demonstrates that the modified estimator works well in situations, where the original estimator is not well defined.
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| Keywords: Box-Cox quantile regression; Iterative estimator |
| JEL Classification: C13; C14 |
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