lpirfs: An R Package to Estimate Impulse Response Functions by Local Projections
The R Journal (2019) 11:2, pages 421-438.
18 Pages Posted: 11 Dec 2019 Last revised: 7 Apr 2020
Date Written: November 19, 2019
Abstract
Impulse response analysis is a cornerstone in applied (macro-)econometrics. Estimating impulse response functions using local projections (LPs) has become an appealing alternative to the traditional structural vector autoregressive (SVAR) approach. Despite its growing popularity and applications, however, no R package yet exists that makes this method available. In this paper, I introduce lpirfs, a fast and flexible R package that provides a broad framework to compute and visualize impulse response functions using LPs for a variety of data sets.
Keywords: R, Local Projections, VARs
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