A Time-Varying Threshold STAR Model with Applications

Michael Dueker, Laura Jackson Young, Michael Owyang and Martin Sola

No 2010-029, Working Papers from Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis

Abstract: Smooth-transition autoregressive (STAR) models, competitors of Markov-switching models, are limited by an assumed time-invariant threshold level. We augment the STAR model with a time-varying threshold that can be interpreted as a "tipping level" where the mean and dynamics of the VAR shift. Thus, the time-varying latent threshold level serves as a demarcation between regimes. We show how to estimate the model in a Bayesian framework using a Metropolis step and an unscented Kalman filter proposal. To show how allowing time variation in the threshold can affect the results, we present two applications: a model of the natural rate of unemployment and a model of regime-dependent government spending.

Keywords: regime switching; smooth-transition autoregressive model; unemployment; nonlinear models (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 28 pages
Date: 2010, Revised 2022-08-10
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DOI: 10.20955/wp.2010.029

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