When and Why State-Dependent Local Projections Work
状态依赖局部投影何时成立,以及为何成立
This paper studies state-dependent local projections (LPs). First, I establish a general characterization of their estimand: under minimal assumptions, state-dependent LPs recover weighted averages of causal effects. This holds for essentially all specifications used in practice. Second, I show that state-dependent LPs and VARs target different estimands and propose a simple VAR-based estimator whose probability limit equals the LP estimand. Third, in instrumental variable…