Re-Examining What We Can Learn About Counterfactual Results from Time Series Regression

Ippei Fujiwara and Adrian Pagan

CAMA Working Papers from Centre for Applied Macroeconomic Analysis, Crawford School of Public Policy, The Australian National University

Abstract: McKay and Wolf (2023) describe a method for ï¬ nding counterfactuals which only requires that one know the impulse responses of shocks from a baseline structural model generating the data. A key feature in their work is the use of news shocks. This an elegant piece of theory and they indicate it can be applied empirically. We argue that one cannot recover the impulse responses from data generated by the structural model when there are news shocks as there are more shocks than observables in that case. We investigate an alternative proposal whereby some off model variables are used to ï¬ nd the requisite impulse responses and ï¬ nd that there are issues with doing that. Their theoretical result also relies upon the baseline structural model only having monetary policy operating via the interest rate channel so it excludes models that might be thought relevant for capturing data.

Keywords: counterfactual; news shocks; shock recovery; local projection (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C3 E3 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 24 pages
Date: 2024-06
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