ASYMPTOTIC THEORY FOR EMPIRICAL SIMILARITY MODELS
研究了经验相似模型的拟极大似然估计量的一致性和渐近分布，该模型不适用于现有非平稳计量经济模型，因此推导了新的非标准渐近理论。
We consider the stochastic process $Y_t = \sum\nolimits_{i < t} {s_w } (x_t ,x_i)Y_i /\sum\nolimits_{i < t} {s_w } (x_t ,x_i) + \varepsilon _t$ , t = 2, …, n , where s w ( x t , x i ) is a similarity function between the t th and the i th observations and { ε t } is a random disturbance term. This process was originally axiomatized by Gilboa, Lieberman, and Schmeidler (2006, Review of Economics and Statistics 88, 433–444) as a way by which agents, or even nature, reason. In the present paper, consistency and the asymptotic distribution of the quasi-maximum likelihood estimator of the parameters of the model are established. Connections to other models and techniques are drawn. In its general form, the model does not fall within any class of nonstationary econometric models for which asymptotic theory is available. For this reason, the developments in this paper are new and nonstandard.