Research Methods for Corporate, Securities, and Financial Law

Estimating Standard Errors in Finance Panel Data Sets: Comparing Approaches

Mitchell A. Petersen

Year
2009
Venue
Review of Financial Studies
Level
Advanced
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Summary

Compares standard-error estimators used in corporate-finance and asset-pricing panels when residuals may be correlated across firms and time. The paper gives applied researchers guidance on firm clustering, time effects, Fama-MacBeth procedures, and two-dimensional dependence.

Citation

Mitchell A. Petersen. "Estimating Standard Errors in Finance Panel Data Sets: Comparing Approaches." Review of Financial Studies, 2009.

DOI: 10.1093/rfs/hhn053

BibTeX

@article{Petersen2009Estimating,
  title = {Estimating Standard Errors in Finance Panel Data Sets: Comparing Approaches},
  author = {Mitchell A. Petersen},
  year = {2009},
  journal = {Review of Financial Studies},
  doi = {10.1093/rfs/hhn053},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.1093/rfs/hhn053}
}
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