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ECONOMETRICS I

ECONOMETRICS I. CHAPTER 2: TWO VARIABLE REGRESSION ANALYSIS: SOME BASIC IDEAS. Textbook: Damodar N. Gujarati (2004)  Basic Econometrics , 4th edition, The McGraw-Hill Companies. 2.1 A HYPOTHETICAL EXAMPLE. Imagine a hypothetical country with a total population of 60 families.

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ECONOMETRICS I

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  1. ECONOMETRICS I CHAPTER 2: TWO VARIABLE REGRESSION ANALYSIS: SOME BASIC IDEAS • Textbook: Damodar N. Gujarati (2004) Basic Econometrics, 4th edition, The McGraw-Hill Companies

  2. 2.1 A HYPOTHETICAL EXAMPLE • Imagine a hypothetical country with a total population of 60 families. • Suppose we are interested in studying the relationship between weekly family consumption expenditure Y and weekly after-tax or disposable family income X.

  3. Population

  4. Conditional distribution of expenditure for various levels of income

  5. Population Regression Curve • Geometrically, a population curve is simply the locus of the conditional means or expectations of the dependent variable for the fixed values of the explanatory variable.

  6. 2.2 THE CONCEPT OF POPULATION REGRESSION FUNCTION (PRF) • Each conditional mean E(Y|Xi) is a function of Xi, where Xi is a given value of X. • Conditional expectation function • Population regression function • Regression function

  7. What form does the function assume? • This is an important question because in real situations we do not have the entire population available for examination. The functional form of the PRF is therefore an empirical question, although in specific cases theory may have something to say. • For now, let’s assume that it is a linear function of Xi:

  8. β1 (intercept)and β2 (slope coefficient) are unknown but fixed parameters known as the regression coefficients • Equation itself is known as the linear population regression function. Some alternative expressions used in the literature are linear population regression model or simply linear population regression. • Regression = regression equation = regression model • In regression analysis we want to estimate the values of the unknowns β1 and β2 on the basis of observations on Y and X.

  9. 2.3 THE MEANING OF THE TERM “LINEAR” • In econometrics “linear” regression means a regression that is linear in the parameters, the β’s; it may or may not be linear in the variable X. • (not linear in parameters) • (linear in parameters) • (not linear in parameters)

  10. FUNCTIONS “LINEAR” IN THE PARAMETERS

  11. 2.4 Stochastic Specification of PRF • We can express the deviation of an individual Yi around its expected value as follows: • or • ui is known as the stochastic disturbance or stochastic error term.

  12. 2.5 THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STOCHASTIC DISTURBANCE TERM • Vagueness of theory • Unavailability of data • Core variables vs. peripheral variables • Intrinsic randomness in human behavior • Poor proxy variables • Principle of parsimony • Wrong functional form

  13. 2.6 THE SAMPLE REGRESSION FUNCTION (SRF)

  14. 2.6 THE SAMPLE REGRESSION FUNCTION (SRF)

  15. 2.6 THE SAMPLE REGRESSION FUNCTION (SRF) • Sample regression function: • We can express the SRF in stochastic form as follows: • The symbol ûidenotes the (sample) residual term.

  16. Sample and population regression lines

  17. The answer is in Chapter 3.

  18. Summary

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