It is correct that xtdpdgmm does not do anything to specifically address cross-sectional dependence. Time dummies can account for cross-sectional dependence due to common shocks assuming homogeneity of the effects of these shocks across units. Any other variables that are constant across units but vary over time become redundant in the presence of time dummies, unless you create interaction terms of these common-shock variables with variables that vary across units. The latter could be away to approximate heterogenous effects of common shocks conditional on observed variables. Obviously, all of this is more restrictive than other approaches for large-N, large-T panel models with common factors / interactive fixed effects, but xtdpdgmm is primarily intended for small-T data.
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