Does Information Help Recovering Structural Shocks from Past Observations?

Lucrezia Reichlin and Domenico Giannone

No 5725, CEPR Discussion Papers from C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers

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

Keywords: Identification; Information; Invertibility; Structural var (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C32 C33 E00 E32 O3 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2006-06
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