| 来源类型 | Discussion paper
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| 规范类型 | 论文
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| 来源ID | DP8419
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| DP8419 Inference on Impulse Response Functions in Structural VAR Models |
| Lutz Kilian; Atsushi Inoue
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| 发表日期 | 2011-06-01
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| 出版年 | 2011
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| 语种 | 英语
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| 摘要 | Skepticism toward traditional identifying assumptions based on exclusion restrictions has led to a surge in the use of structural VAR models in which structural shocks are identified by restricting the sign of the responses of selected macroeconomic aggregates to these shocks. Researchers commonly report the vector of pointwise posterior medians of the impulse responses as a measure of central tendency of the estimated response functions, along with pointwise 68 percent posterior error bands. It can be shown that this approach cannot be used to characterize the central tendency of the structural impulse response functions. We propose an alternative method of summarizing the evidence from sign-identified VAR models designed to enhance their practical usefulness. Our objective is to characterize the most likely admissible model(s) within the set of structural VAR models that satisfy the sign restrictions. We show how the set of most likely structural response functions can be computed from the posterior mode of the joint distribution of admissible models both in the fully identified and in the partially identified case, and we propose a highest-posterior density credible set that characterizes the joint uncertainty about this set. Our approach can also be used to resolve the long-standing problem of how to conduct joint inference on sets of structural impulse response functions in exactly identified VAR models. We illustrate the differences between our approach and the traditional approach for the analysis of the effects of monetary policy shocks and of the effects of oil demand and oil supply shocks. |
| 主题 | International Macroeconomics
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| 关键词 | Credible set
Impulse responses
Median
Mode
Sign restrictions
Simultaneous inference
Vector autoregression
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| URL | https://cepr.org/publications/dp8419
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| 来源智库 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (United Kingdom)
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物
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| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/537256
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Lutz Kilian,Atsushi Inoue. DP8419 Inference on Impulse Response Functions in Structural VAR Models. 2011.
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