TY - JOUR
T1 - Bayesian inference for partially identified smooth convex models
AU - Liao, Yuan
AU - Simoni, Anna
N1 - Funding Information:
This is a substantially revised version of an earlier manuscript entitled “Semi-parametric Bayesian partially identified models based on support function”. The authors gratefully thank the Editors, an Associate Editor, and anonymous referees for their many constructive comments on the previous version of the paper. Anna Simoni gratefully acknowledges financial support from ANR-11-LABEX-0047 and from ANR-13-BSH1-0004 (IPANEMA).
Publisher Copyright:
© 2019 Elsevier B.V.
PY - 2019/8
Y1 - 2019/8
N2 - This paper proposes novel Bayesian procedures for partially identified models when the identified set is convex with a smooth boundary, whose support function is locally smooth with respect to the data distribution. Using the posterior of the identified set, we construct Bayesian credible sets for the identified set, the partially identified parameter and their scalar transformations. These constructions, based on the support function, benefit from several computationally attractive algorithms when the identified set is convex, and are proved to have valid large sample frequentist coverages. These results are based on a local linear expansion of the support function of the identified set. We provide primitive conditions to verify such an expansion.
AB - This paper proposes novel Bayesian procedures for partially identified models when the identified set is convex with a smooth boundary, whose support function is locally smooth with respect to the data distribution. Using the posterior of the identified set, we construct Bayesian credible sets for the identified set, the partially identified parameter and their scalar transformations. These constructions, based on the support function, benefit from several computationally attractive algorithms when the identified set is convex, and are proved to have valid large sample frequentist coverages. These results are based on a local linear expansion of the support function of the identified set. We provide primitive conditions to verify such an expansion.
KW - Bayesian credible sets
KW - Bernstein–von Mises theorem
KW - Moment inequality models
KW - Partial identification
KW - Support function
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U2 - 10.1016/j.jeconom.2019.03.001
DO - 10.1016/j.jeconom.2019.03.001
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85063447871
SN - 0304-4076
VL - 211
SP - 338
EP - 360
JO - Journal of Econometrics
JF - Journal of Econometrics
IS - 2
ER -