Comparing External and Internal Instruments for Vector Autoregressions

Martin Bruns and Helmut Lütkepohl

No 2108, Discussion Papers of DIW Berlin from DIW Berlin, German Institute for Economic Research

Abstract: In conventional proxy VAR analysis, the shocks of interest are identified by external instruments. This is typically accomplished by considering the covariance of the instruments and the reduced-form residuals. Alternatively, the instruments may be internalized by augmenting the VAR process by the instruments or proxies. These alternative identification methods are compared and it is shown that the resulting shocks obtained with the alternative approaches differ in general. Conditions are provided under which their impulse responses are nevertheless identical. If the conditions are satisfied, identification of the shocks is ensured without further assumptions. Empirical examples illustrate the results and the virtue of using the identification conditions derived in this study.

Keywords: Structural vector autoregression; proxy VAR; augmented VAR; fundamental shocks; invertible VAR (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C32 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 23 p.
Date: 2025
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