Inference in Bayesian Proxy-Svars

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Jonas Arias

Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia

Juan Francisco Rubio-Ramirez

Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta - Research Department

Daniel F. Waggoner

Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta

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Date Written: November, 2018

Abstract

Motivated by the increasing use of external instruments to identify structural vector autoregressions SVARs), we develop algorithms for exact finite sample inference in this class of time series models, commonly known as proxy SVARs. Our algorithms make independent draws from the normal-generalized-normal family of conjugate posterior distributions over the structural parameterization of a proxy-SVAR. Importantly, our techniques can handle the case of set identification and hence they can be used to relax the additional exclusion restrictions unrelated to the external instruments often imposed to facilitate inference when more than one instrument is used to identify more than one equation as in Mertens and Montiel-Olea (2018).

JEL Classification: C15, C32

Suggested Citation

Arias, Jonas and Rubio-Ramirez, Juan Francisco and Waggoner, Daniel F., Inference in Bayesian Proxy-Svars (November, 2018). FRB of Philadelphia Working Paper No. 18-25/R, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3286208 or http://dx.doi.org/10.21799/frbp.wp.2018.25

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