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Given that strict exogeneity of instruments is often a questionable assumption, our findings should be important to applied researchers who are concerned about the degree of size distortion of their inference procedure. We suggest robustness of asymptotic size under local model violations as a new alternative measure to choose among competing testing procedures. We also investigate the subsampling and hybrid tests introduced in Andrews and Guggenberger (2010a,<jats:italic>Journal of Econometrics<\/jats:italic>158, 285\u2013305) and show that they do not offer any improvement in terms of size-distortion reduction over the Anderson-Rubin type tests.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1017\/s0266466611000375","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2011,9,13]],"date-time":"2011-09-13T10:47:11Z","timestamp":1315910831000},"page":"387-421","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":58,"title":["ON THE ASYMPTOTIC SIZE DISTORTION OF TESTS WHEN INSTRUMENTS LOCALLY VIOLATE THE EXOGENEITY ASSUMPTION"],"prefix":"10.1017","volume":"28","author":[{"given":"Patrik","family":"Guggenberger","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"56","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2011,9,13]]},"reference":[{"key":"S0266466611000375_ref52","first-page":"559","article-title":"Financial dependence and growth","volume":"88","author":"Rajan","year":"1998","journal-title":"American Economic Review"},{"key":"S0266466611000375_ref50","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1214\/aos\/1176325770"},{"key":"S0266466611000375_ref47","article-title":"Identification with imperfect instruments","author":"Nevo","year":"2011","journal-title":"Review of Economics and Statistics"},{"key":"S0266466611000375_ref39","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.2307\/2171942"},{"key":"S0266466611000375_ref25","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1257\/aer.89.3.379"},{"key":"S0266466611000375_ref45","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1111\/1468-0262.00438"},{"key":"S0266466611000375_ref51","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1214\/aos\/1176325370"},{"key":"S0266466611000375_ref41","unstructured":"Kleibergen F. & Mavroeidis S. 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