Validating Monetary DSGE Models Through Vars

45 Pages Posted: 27 Aug 2002

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Fabio Canova

BI Norwegian Business School

Date Written: July 2002

Abstract

Robust sign restrictions derived from calibrated DSGE models are used to identify structual shocks in the actual data. The dynamic behaviour of selected variables in response to these shocks is employed to measure, both qualitatively and quantitatively, the economic discrepancy between the model and the data. We design an algorithm that allows increasingly demanding diagnostics on the model, room for respecification at each stage of the process and comparison across models. We show that neither a limited participation model, nor a sticky price monopolistic-competitive model, fully accounts for the dynamics of a small set of macro variables. Furthermore simple alterations of the former fail to improve the match with the data, even in qualitative sense.

Keywords: Dynamic general equilibrium models, VARs, sign restrictions, model evaluation

JEL Classification: E00, E50

Suggested Citation

Canova, Fabio, Validating Monetary DSGE Models Through Vars (July 2002). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=324964

Fabio Canova (Contact Author)

BI Norwegian Business School ( email )

Nydalsveien 37
Oslo, 0442
Norway

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