“…In empirical macroeconomics identification failure and moment misspecification are common issues (Mavroeidis 2005). Under the GMM framework, inference under weak moments (Andrews and Mikusheva 2020, Kleibergen 2005, Stock and Wright 2000, estimation under many weak moments (Han and Phillips 2006), and robust procedures for invalid moments , DiTraglia 2016) have been developed. EL's attractive theoretical properties are studied extensively (Kitamura 2001, Matsushita and Otsu 2013, Otsu 2010.…”