Projection Inference for set-identified SVARs

Bulat Gafarov, Matthias Meier and Jos\'e Luis Montiel Olea

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Abstract: We study the properties of projection inference for set-identified Structural Vector Autoregressions. A nominal $1-\alpha$ projection region collects the structural parameters that are compatible with a $1-\alpha$ Wald ellipsoid for the model's reduced-form parameters (autoregressive coefficients and the covariance matrix of residuals). We show that projection inference can be applied to a general class of stationary models, is computationally feasible, and -- as the sample size grows large -- it produces regions for the structural parameters and their identified set with both frequentist coverage and \emph{robust} Bayesian credibility of at least $1-\alpha$. A drawback of the projection approach is that both coverage and robust credibility may be strictly above their nominal level. Following the work of \cite{Kaido_Molinari_Stoye:2014}, we `calibrate' the radius of the Wald ellipsoid to guarantee that -- for a given posterior on the reduced-form parameters -- the robust Bayesian credibility of the projection method is exactly $1-\alpha$. If the bounds of the identified set are differentiable, our calibrated projection also covers the identified set with probability $1-\alpha$. %eliminating the excess of robust Bayesian credibility also eliminates excessive frequentist coverage. We illustrate the main results of the paper using the demand/supply-model for the U.S. labor market in Baumeister_Hamilton(2015)

Date: 2025-04
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