Uncertain Short‐Run Restrictions and Statistically Identified Structural Vector Autoregressions
不确定的短期约束与统计识别的结构向量自回归
ABSTRACT This study proposes a combination of a statistical identification approach with potentially invalid short‐run zero restrictions. The estimator shrinks towards imposed restrictions and stops shrinkage when the data provide evidence against a restriction. We demonstrate that incorporating valid restrictions through the shrinkage approach enhances the efficiency of the statistically identified estimator, and the impact of invalid restrictions vanishes as the sample…