Based on Elastic net, a new variable selection method is proposed in this paper for linear panel data models with fixed effects. The variable selection problem with the strongly correlated variables can be dealt with by the proposed variable selection method. Firstly, the fixed effect is eliminated by the forward orthogonal deviation transformation. Then, the penalized least squares objective function based on the Elastic net penalty is constructed, which can estimate regression coefficients and select important variables simultaneously. The group effect property of the obtained estimation is proved. The influence of fixed effects is eliminated by the proposed variable selection method and the real model can be identified well even if the covariates are collinear. Secondly, the finite sample properties of the proposed method are accessed by the simulation. The simulation results show that compared with Lasso, ALasso and SCAD variable selection methods, strongly correlated variables can be better selected by the proposed Elastic net variable selection method. Finally, a real dataset is analyzed by the proposed method.
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