TY - RPRT AU - Buddelmeyer, Hielke AU - Jensen, Paul H. AU - Oguzoglu, Umut AU - Webster, Elizabeth TI - Fixed Effects Bias in Panel Data Estimators PY - 2008/May/ PB - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) CY - Bonn T2 - IZA Discussion Paper IS - 3487 UR - https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp3487 AB - Since little is known about the degree of bias in estimated fixed effects in panel data models, we run Monte Carlo simulations on a range of different estimators. We find that Anderson-Hsiao IV, Kiviet’s bias-corrected LSDV and GMM estimators all perform well in both short and long panels. However, OLS outperforms the other estimators when the following holds: the cross-section is small (N = 20), the time dimension is short (T = 5) and the coefficient on the lagged dependent variable is large (γ = 0.8). KW - fixed effects KW - panel data KW - LSDV KW - dynamic model ER -