A narrative approach to a fiscal DSGE model

Thorsten Drautzburg

No 16-11, Working Papers from Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia

Abstract: This version: March 28, 2016 First version: February 2014 {{p}} Structural DSGE models are used both for analyzing policy and the sources of business cycles. Conclusions based on full structural models are, however, potentially affected by misspecification. A competing method is to use partially identified VARs based on narrative shocks. This paper asks whether both approaches agree. First, I show that, theoretically, the narrative VAR approach is valid in a class of DSGE models with Taylor-type policy rules. Second, I quantify whether the two approaches also agree empirically, that is, whether DSGE model restrictions on the VARs and the narrative variables are supported by the data. To that end, I first adapt the existing methods for shock identification with external instruments for Bayesian VARs in the SUR framework. I also extend the DSGE-VAR framework to incorporate these instruments. Based on a standard DSGE model with fiscal rules, my results indicate that the DSGE model identification is at odds with the narrative information as measured by the marginal likelihood. I trace this discrepancy to differences both in impulse responses and identified historical shocks.

Keywords: Fiscal policy; Monetary policy; DSGE model; Bayesian estimation; Narrative shocks; Bayesian VARs (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C32 E32 E52 E62 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 70 pages
Date: 2016-03-28
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-dge and nep-mac
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