The answer to your question to your question is a bit to complicated to set out in an email.  Have a look at Wooldridge (2010). Econometric Analysis of Croos section and Panel Data, MIT Press, Section 10.2.2 on page 287.  Given stochastic y and x and unobserved effect c then the exogeneity condition is

E[y_{it}| x_{i1},  x_{i2},...,  x_{iT}, c_i] = E[y_{it}| x_{it}, c_i]  = x_{it}\beta + c_i

i.e. once one adds the unobserved effect the requirement is that the "exogeneity" should go if the fixed effects estimator is OK.  At least this is what I understand to be the case.


Best Regards

John

On 13 July 2011 20:53, Anutechia Asongu <simplice_peace@yahoo.com> wrote:
Hi All,
         I understand Hausamn test is useful to test for endogeneity(though of low power). In the presence of endogeneity, do panel  fixed effect regressions take account this problem (endogeneity)?. I saying so because I understand from explanations in Grelts Users Guide that , panel fixed effects regressions are based on the undelying assumption that variables are correlated with the error term(endogeneity)?.  Am I correct in my intuition?
        Thanks



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