Forming Priors for DSGE Models (and How it Affects the Assessment of Nominal Rigidities)

Marco Del Negro () and Frank Schorfheide ()

No 13741, NBER Working Papers from National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc

Abstract: The paper discusses prior elicitation for the parameters of dynamic stochastic general equilibrium (DSGE) models, and provides a method for constructing prior distributions for a subset of these parameters from beliefs about the moments of the endogenous variables. The empirical application studies the role of price and wage rigidities in a New Keynesian DSGE model and finds that standard macro time series cannot discriminate among theories that differ in the quantitative importance of nominal frictions.

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Date: 2008-01
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