Discussion of: “Dynamic Causal Effects in a Nonlinear World: the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly”
《非线性世界中的动态因果效应》讨论:效应大小与大冲击
The ease of estimating linear local projections has made them a popular tool for impulse response function analysis. Kolesár and Plagborg-Møller’s main goal is to inquire whether local projections (LP) estimands of impulse response functions have a causal interpretation when the data generating process (DGP) is nonlinear. This discussion focuses on two questions. First, how should we interpret the magnitude of the linear LP estimands in nonlinear environments? Second, is the…