Dear Statalist members,
Thank you so much for reading this post and helping me answer my question! In short, my question is how I can run a regression in Stata which contains not only fixed effects, but also the interaction of an independent variable with the fixed effects. I will explain the details below.
I am trying to replicate a paper which examines how the stock price reaction to earnings (a.k.a. earnings response coefficient) changes after a certain regulation was introduced. It is a classic difference-in-differences design complicated by the fact that the variable of interest is not a stand-alone variable but the coefficient obtained from a regression.
Specifically, the earnings response coefficient is the "b1" coefficient in the regression below:
CAR i,t = b0 + b1* UE i,t + bm* Controls i,t + ei,t
where
CAR i,t is the stock return around earnings announcement, for company i and year-quarter t;
UE i,t is the earnings being announced, for company i and year-quarter t;
Controls i,t is a list of control variables.
The regression I am trying to run is specified as follows (Table 3 in the attached paper https://www.sciencedirect.com/scienc...300417#bib0026):
CAR= b0 + b1* UE*Post*Treat + b2* UE + b3* Treat + b4* Post + b5* Treat*Post + b6* UE*Post + b7* UE*Treat
+ bm* Controls + bn* UE*Controls + Year-quarter fixed effect + Industry fixed effect + UE*Year-quarter fixed effect + UE*Industry fixed effect
In Stata 14, I tried to run the following code:
reghdfe car ue_post_treat ue ue_treat ue_post controls ue_controls, ///
absorb(industry yearquarter ue_industry ue_yearquarter) vce (cluster announcement_date)
The regression ran, but "ue" was omitted due to collinearity. This is expected because "ue_industry" = ue*i.industry and "ue_yearquarter" = ue*yearquarter are obviously collinear with "ue". This brings me to my questions:
1. Is my regression correctly specified? The paper cited above mentioned that they included the "interactions of UE with year-quarter fixed effect and industry fixed effects" and Table 3 also shows "UE*fixed effects", but does that actually mean taking the product of the year-quarter (or industry) dummy and UE? I am really confused as that seems to inevitably result in collinearity problems.
2. Suppose my specifications are correct, how should I run this regression in Stata (or other softwares)? In the paper, none of variables were omitted due to collinearity, so it is definitely achievable. Is there any other command I should use to run this regression?
Again, thank you so much for your help, I truly appreciate any suggestions or reference to any post or paper that addresses a similar problem.
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