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无效代理变量与波动率变化AI 解读

When in proxy-SVARs the covariance matrix of VAR disturbances is subject to exogenous, permanent breaks that cause IRFs to change across volatility regimes, even strong, exogenous external instruments yield inconsistent estimates of the dynamic causal effects. However, if these volatility shifts are properly incorporated into the analysis through (testable) "stability restrictions", we demonstrate that the target IRFs are point-identified and can be estimated consistently…

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重新审视石油供给新闻冲击：代理变量与非高斯结构向量自回归AI 解读

ABSTRACT We replicate a study by Känzig ( American Economic Review , 111 (2021), 1092–1125), who employs structural vector autoregressive techniques to examine the impact of changes in oil supply expectations on the price of oil and other macroeconomic aggregates. Känzig identifies an oil supply news shock by constructing a proxy from OPEC announcements about their production plans. As an alternative approach, we use non‐Gaussianity and independence to identify structural…

基于条件异方差识别日度油价冲击及其不确定性AI 解读

This paper develops a daily structural VAR for identifying oil price shocks from conditional heteroskedasticity and quantifies the transmission of their timevarying uncertainty. Identification exploits volatility clustering and spillovers in a structural GARCH specification and the complete identified set is derived. We derive covariance impulse response functions and introduce a time-varying forecast error variance decomposition (TV-FEVD) that allows for a decomposition of…

紧识别SVAR中基于“软”符号限制的快速后验抽样AI 解读

We propose algorithms for conducting Bayesian inference in structural vector autoregressions identified using sign restrictions. The key feature of our approach is a sampling step based on ‘soft’ sign restrictions. This step draws from a target density that smoothly penalises parameter values that violate the restrictions, facilitating the use of computationally efficient Markov chain Monte Carlo sampling algorithms. An importance-sampling step yields draws conditional on…

Abstract This paper shows how the structural representation of a vector autoregressive model can support forecast analysis. We offer a unified framework that formalizes how the structural form of the model can help form a narrative for two key statistics in real-time VAR forecasting: the forecast errors at the outturn of the data, and the consequent revisions of the forecast. We conduct an exercise on the UK, focusing on the inflation surge that started in 2022. We show that…

用非线性因子扩展贝叶斯 VAR 的灵活方法AI 解读

This paper proposes a vector autoregression augmented with nonlinear factors that are modeled nonparametrically using regression trees. There are four main advantages of our model. First, modeling potential nonlinearities nonparametrically lessens the risk of misspecification. Second, the use of factor methods ensures that departures from linearity are modeled parsimoniously. In particular, they exhibit functional pooling where a small number of nonlinear factors are used to…

Abstract The paper studies nonstationary high-dimensional vector autoregressions of order k, VAR(k). Additional deterministic terms such as trend or seasonality are allowed. The number of time periods, T, and the number of coordinates, N, are assumed to be large and of the same order. Under this regime the first-order asymptotics of the Johansen likelihood ratio (LR), Pillai-Bartlett, and Hotelling-Lawley tests for cointegration are derived: The test statistics converge to…

分位数网络向量自回归中的双向同质性分组AI 解读

We propose a two-way grouped network quantile (TGNQ) autoregression model for time series data observed on networks with substantial heterogeneity and complex directional interactions. Motivated by prior studies on network effects in directed networks, our model assigns each node two latent group memberships to flexibly capture asymmetric and heterogeneous interactions among users. These memberships, along with model parameters, can be consistently estimated using the…

达成议价：工资议价冲击的叙事识别AI 解读

ABSTRACT Wage markup shocks, an important driver of business cycles, are hard to pin down. We quantify the importance of exogenous variation in wage bargaining power, one source of those shocks, from German minimum wage introduction episodes and strikes. This disciplines the impulse responses of unemployment and output, and sharpens inference for other variables, which behave consistently with predictions from search‐and‐matching models. We find that wage bargaining shocks…

时变向量自回归的模型平均AI 解读

This paper proposes a novel time-varying model averaging (TVMA) approach to enhancing forecast accuracy for multivariate time series subject to structural changes. The TVMA method averages predictions from a set of time-varying vector autoregressive models using optimal time-varying combination weights selected by minimizing a penalized local criterion. This allows the relative importance of different models to adaptively evolve over time in response to structural shifts. We…

平滑结构变化下 FAVAR 模型的时变模型平均AI 解读

Factor-augmented vector autoregressive (FAVAR) models serve as a powerful tool for forecasting economic and financial variables, particularly in environments with a large number of predictors. In this study, we propose a time-varying model-averaging method for FAVAR (TVMA-FAVAR) that accommodates smooth structural changes. To estimate the optimal time-varying combination weights, we develop a local leave-one-out cross-validation (LLOCV) criterion that is asymptotically…

阈值空间由直线划分的广义多元阈值自回归模型AI 解读

We consider a k-dimensional multiple-regime vector threshold autoregressive model, in which the regime-switching mechanism is governed by a bivariate threshold variable. Specifically, the regimes are induced by a partition of the threshold space by an unknown number of threshold lines. Within each regime, the process follows a specific vector autoregressive (VAR) model. We formulate the model selection and parameter estimation into a minimization problem based on the Minimum…

宏观经济新闻冲击与意外冲击的估计AI 解读

ABSTRACT A common VAR approach is to identify responses to TFP news shocks by maximizing the variance share of TFP over a long horizon. We find that these TFP max share estimators tend to be biased in large samples when applied to data generated from DSGE models with shock processes that match TFP moments in the data, especially in the presence of TFP measurement error. We propose an alternative max share news estimator that reduces this bias and the RMSE of the impulse…

可靠性随时间变化的高频工具变量：理解宏观经济识别AI 解读

ABSTRACT The effects of monetary policy shocks are regularly estimated using high‐frequency surprises in asset prices around central bank meetings as an instrument. These studies, insofar as they explicitly model the relationship between instrument and structural shock, assume a constant relationship between the instrument and the monetary policy shock. By allowing for time variation in this relationship, we show that only a few distinct periods are informative about…

通过稀疏性识别因子扩展 VAR 模型AI 解读

This paper introduces a regularized factor-augmented vector autoregressive (RFAVAR) model which incorporates sparsity in the factor loadings. Within this framework, the factors can load on a subset of variables, thereby enabling factor identification and enhancing their economic interpretation. The proposed RFAVAR model allows to investigate the effects of structural shocks on economically interpretable factors and on all observed time series included in the model. We prove…

欧元区及其成员国大型数据集与共同货币政策的动态效应AI 解读

ABSTRACT We introduce EA‐MD‐QD, a new publicly available dataset comprising 1136 macroeconomic time series for the euro area (EA) and its ten largest member countries observed at monthly or quarterly frequency. Since January 2024, EA‐MD‐QD has been updated monthly and continuously revised, providing a valuable resource for policy analysis in the EA. Using EA‐MD‐QD, we study country‐specific impulse responses to an EA‐wide monetary policy shock. Results reveal moderate yet…

Summary We develop a large structural vector autoregression (SVAR) that is statistically identified using higher-order moments under non-Gaussian, mutually independent shocks, without imposing economically motivated restrictions. Estimation is performed via an efficient Gibbs sampler that scales well with dimensionality, and we introduce an estimator of the deviance information criterion to facilitate model comparison, including the evaluation of overidentifying economic…

利用预测识别新闻冲击AI 解读

ABSTRACT We propose a method to identify the anticipated components of macroeconomic shocks in a structural VAR. We include empirical forecasts about each time series in the VAR. This introduces enough linear restrictions to identify every structural shock and to further decompose each one into “news” and “surprise” shocks. We estimate a VAR on U.S. time series using forecast data from the SPF, CBO, Federal Reserve, and asset prices. Unanticipated fiscal stimulus and…

Summary We adapt double machine learning to macroeconomic time series by combining regularized nuisance estimation with reverse cross-fitting. This deterministic scheme exploits time reversibility to use time-reversed auxiliary blocks and, unlike neighbour-deletion designs, avoids buffer blocks, thereby improving sample usage. We derive conditions for asymptotic validity and show in simulations that the estimator performs well in realistic finite samples across the designs…

基于误差协方差特征分解的快速、顺序不变 VAR 贝叶斯推断AI 解读

Bayesian inference in Vector Autoregressions (VARs) involves manipulating large matrices which appear in the posterior (or conditional posterior) of the VAR coefficients. For large VARs, the computational burden of these manipulations can render empirical work impractical. In response to this, many researchers transform their VARs so as to allow for Bayesian estimation to proceed one equation at a time. This leads to a massive reduction in the computational burden. This…

含影响节点与社群的高维分位数向量自回归AI 解读

Quantile vector autoregression (QVAR) models offer enhanced capabilities over vector autoregression (VAR) models in analyzing asymmetric interactions within multiple time series and are widely used in many areas, including finance and economics. However, in scenarios involving high-dimensional data where the number of time series N exceeds the length of the time series T, both parameter estimation and the theoretical establishment present significant challenges. Notably,…

奇异向量自回归AI 解读

This paper develops methods for the empirical analysis of singular processes, particularly in macroeconomics. A strong rationale, a well-developed theoretical framework and, as we show, empirical support exist for multivariate time series with a singular spectral density. A singular spectral density is consistent with economic theory underlying, for example, DSGE models in which the number of variables is greater than the number of structural shocks. This assumption…

非对称风险下的宏观审慎政策：贝叶斯结构分位数 VAR 方法AI 解读

Macro-prudential policymakers face a risk-management problem: they must assess medium-term downside risks to the real economy stemming from financial imbalances and the associated threat of future financial crises, while accounting for the cost of policy interventions in terms of foregone upside potential. This trade-off between limiting downside risks and preserving upside growth is inherently asymmetric and depends on the distribution of future macroeconomic outcomes. We…

基于方差分解检验高频网络连通性的差异AI 解读

We develop a Bayesian Wald-type test for detecting temporal differences in connectedness from variance decompositions, and establish the asymptotic normality of impulse response functions and variance decomposition matrices at fixed local time points. The resulting test statistic is asymptotically χ 2 distributed under the null hypothesis and performs well in Monte Carlo simulations. Applying our methodology to high-frequency options data on sectoral exchange-traded funds…