Simultaneous Clustered Orthogonalization
同时聚类正交化
Identification in vector autoregressions involves two distinct choices: how extensively to orthogonalize shocks and whether orthogonality is imposed sequentially or simultaneously. Generalized identification imposes no orthogonality; Sims (1980} imposes full orthogonality sequentially; Francis et al. (2026) impose full orthogonality simultaneously; and Buchwalter et al. (2026a) provide clustered partial orthogonalization sequentially. We fill the remaining case by developing…