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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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

非中心化随机波动率下结构向量自回归的部分识别AI 解读

We consider structural vector autoregressions that are identified through stochastic volatility under Bayesian estimation. Three contributions emerge from our exercise. First, we show that a non-centred parameterization of stochastic volatility yields a marginal prior for the conditional variances of structural shocks that is centred on homoskedasticity, with strong shrinkage and heavy tails—unlike the common centred parameterization. This feature makes it well suited for…

疫情后大型贝叶斯 VAR 的贝叶斯模型比较AI 解读

There is an increasing interest in applying variational Bayes techniques to estimating large Bayesian vector autoregressions (VARs) with stochastic volatility. However, less attention has been paid to the development of appropriate tools for comparing these high-dimensional models, especially among those designed to address COVID-19 outliers. This paper develops a marginal likelihood estimator that combines importance sampling and variational approximation for comparing…

分布向量自回归：刻画宏观与金融依赖AI 解读

ABSTRACT This paper extends the vector autoregression framework by introducing a flexible distributional regression that models multivariate time series without imposing restrictive parametric distribution assumptions. We develop a distributional impulse response function that captures the future effect of distributional disturbances within the system, providing a more detailed view of dynamic heterogeneity. We propose a straightforward estimation method and establish its…

什么解释了国际利率的共同变动？AI 解读

ABSTRACT The international co‐movement of interest rates reflects correlated business‐cycle fluctuations, largely driven by demand shocks. Monetary policy in advanced economies follows domestic mandates—inflation and the output gap—and does not respond to foreign policy shocks. We derive this result from a Bayesian structural panel vector autoregression with informative priors, homogeneity restrictions on contemporaneous relations, a hierarchical Minnesota prior with…

集合识别 SVAR 预测误差方差分解的估计与推断AI 解读

We study estimation and inference of the Forecast Error Variance Decomposition (FEVD) in Structural Vector Autoregressions (SVARs) that are set-identified by internal and external (proxy) restrictions. The FEVD measures the importance of shocks for macroeconomic fluctuations and is thus key to business cycle analysis. We deliver three practitioner-oriented results. First, we characterize the endpoints of the FEVD as the extreme eigenvalues of a symmetric reduced-form matrix,…

分簇网络连通性：测度框架及全球股票市场应用AI 解读

Network connections, both across and within markets, are central in countless economic contexts. In recent decades, a large literature has developed and applied flexible methods for measuring network connectedness and its evolution, based on variance decompositions from vector autoregressions (VARs), as in Diebold and Yilmaz (2014). Those VARs are, however, typically identified using full orthogonalization (Sims, 1980), or no orthogonalization (Koop et al., 1996; Pesaran and…

时变参数 VAR 中与经济理论一致的收缩AI 解读

This article introduces a theory coherent shrinkage prior for Time-Varying Parameter VARs (TVP-VARs). The prior centers the time-varying parameters on a path implied a priori by an underlying economic theory, chosen to describe the dynamics of the macroeconomic variables in system. Leveraging information from conventional economic theory using this prior significantly improves inference precision and forecast accuracy compared to the standard TVP-VAR. In an application, I…