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How does the presence of multicollinearity among independent variables affect the properties of the OLS estimators?

  1. It inflates the standard errors of the coefficients but leaves them unbiased.
  2. It makes the OLS estimators inconsistent.
  3. It introduces a systematic bias in the slope estimates.
  4. It prevents the calculation of the R^2 statistic.

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