Inference for VARs Identified with Sign Restrictions

Hyungsik Moon (), Frank Schorfheide, Eleonora Granziera and Mihye Lee

No 17140, NBER Working Papers from National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc

Abstract: There is a fast growing literature that partially identifies structural vector autoregressions (SVARs) by imposing sign restrictions on the responses of a subset of the endogenous variables to a particular structural shock (sign-restricted SVARs). To date, the methods that have been used are only justified from a Bayesian perspective. This paper develops methods of constructing error bands for impulse response functions of sign-restricted SVARs that are valid from a frequentist perspective. We also provide a comparison of frequentist and Bayesian error bands in the context of an empirical application - the former can be twice as wide as the latter.

JEL-codes: C1 C32 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011-06
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Published as Eleonora Granziera & Hyungsik Roger Moon & Frank Schorfheide, 2018. "Inference for VARs identified with sign restrictions," Quantitative Economics, Econometric Society, vol. 9(3), pages 1087-1121, November.

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