Alternative Procedures for Estimating Vector Autoregressions Identified with Long-Run Restrictions

FEDS Working Paper No. 842

13 Pages Posted: 2 Nov 2005

See all articles by Lawrence J. Christiano

Lawrence J. Christiano

Northwestern University; Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland; Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago; Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis; National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)

Martin Eichenbaum

Northwestern University; National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)

Robert J. Vigfusson

Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System

Date Written: October 2005

Abstract

We show that the standard procedure for estimating long-run identified vector autoregressions uses a particular estimator of the zero-frequency spectral density matrix of the data. We develop alternatives to the standard procedure and evaluate the properties of these alternative procedures using Monte Carlo experiments in which data are generated from estimated real business cycle models. We focus on the properties of estimated impulse response functions. In our examples, the alternative procedures have better small sample properties than the standard procedure, with smaller bias, smaller mean square error and better coverage rates for estimated confidence intervals.

Keywords: Technology shocks, hours worked, frequency domain, spectral density matrix

JEL Classification: E24, E32, O3

Suggested Citation

Christiano, Lawrence J. and Eichenbaum, Martin and Vigfusson, Robert John, Alternative Procedures for Estimating Vector Autoregressions Identified with Long-Run Restrictions (October 2005). FEDS Working Paper No. 842, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=833204 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.833204

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