Vector Autoregressions and Macroeconomic Modeling: An Error Taxonomy
向量自回归与宏观经济建模:误差分类
In this article, we investigate the theoretical behavior of finite lag VAR(n)$\text{VAR}(n)$ models fitted to time series that in truth come from an infinite-order VAR(∞)$\text{VAR}(\infty)$ data-generating mechanism. We show that the overall error can be broken down into two basic components, an estimation error that stems from the difference between the parameter estimates and their population ensemble VAR(n)$\text{VAR}(n)$ counterparts, and an approximation error that…