Does information help recovering fundamental structural shocks from past observations?

Domenico Giannone and Lucrezia Reichlin ()
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Domenico Giannone: Universite' Libre de Bruxelles, ECARES

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Abstract: This paper asks two questions. First, can we detect empirically whether the shocks recovered from the estimates of a structural VAR are fundamental? Second, can the problem of non-fundamentalness be solved by considering additional information? The answer to the firrst question is 'yes' and that to the second is 'under some conditions'.

JEL-codes: C32 C33 E00 E32 O3 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
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Date: 2005-11-15
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