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Unable to get results for bank's fixed effect


I am using following code with panel data. I am able to get the year fixed effect but I am unable to get the bank fixed effect. I am getting the bank effect by using lm but not by plm.

I am sharing the sample data :

sample data

p_data <- pdata.frame(data_1, index = c("id", "time"),drop.index = TRUE)

fixed1 <- plm(y ~ x, data=p_data, model="within")
summary(fixed1)

fixed2 <- plm(y ~ x + factor(year) - 1, data=p_data, model="within")
summary(fixed2)

fixed3 <- plm(y ~ x + factor(bank) - 1, data=p_data, model="within")
summary(fixed3)

fixed4 <- plm(y ~ x + factor(year) + factor(bank) - 1, data = p_data, model="within")
summary(fixed4)

Solution

  • fixed3 already is a bank fixed effects model as the default fixed effects are the individual effects (in your case id eq. to bank; it is just coded differently). Look at these two models for bank fixed effects:

    fixed3.1 <- plm(y ~ x + factor(bank) - 1, data=p_data, model="pooling")
    summary(fixed3.1)
    
    fixed3.2 <- plm(y ~ x, data=p_data, model="within")
    summary(fixed3.2)
    fixef(fixed3.2)
    

    For a two-ways model, look at:

    fixed4.tw <- plm(y ~ x, data = p_data, model="within", effect = "twoways")
    summary(fixed4.tw)
    fixef(fixed4.tw)
    fixef(fixed4.tw, effect = "time")
    fixef(fixed4.tw, effect = "twoways")