OLS with Correlated Errors
Consider the standard linear regression model $y = X\beta + \varepsilon$, where OLS assumes $\text{Cov}(\varepsilon) = \sigma^2 I$. Now suppose the errors are not i.i.d. but instead exhibit correlation.
1. If the errors are **positively correlated**, what happens to the OLS coefficient estimates $\hat{\beta}$? Are they still unbiased? What about the estimated standard errors and the resulting t-statistics?
2. If the errors are **negatively correlated**, how does the story change?
3. What would you do in practice to fix these issues?
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