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Two frequent approaches for identifying structural VARs are external instruments, which carry economic content but are often weak, and non-Gaussianity of the shocks, which provides statistical identification but carries no economic meaning. We combine the two strategies in a single generalized method of moments framework. This hybrid approach point-identifies the target shocks while also identifying the non-target shocks up to sign and ordering. Under suitable rank…

有意过度识别的局部投影AI 解读

Local projections (LPs) have become a standard tool for estimating dynamic effects in macroeconomics and are typically implemented using ordinary least squares (OLS) for a given lag order. We propose an alternative approach that exploits additional lags as excluded instrumental variables (IVs). Under a finite-order model with martingale-difference shocks, the resulting (optimally weighted) IV estimator is never asymptotically less efficient than OLS and, as we show, can…

具有双向依赖的面板结构VAR推断AI 解读

We develop inference for heterogeneous panel vector autoregressive (VAR) models and their structural impulse response functions, where the error terms are dependent in the cross-sectional and time dimensions (two-way dependence). For proxy-identified structural VARs, we first adapt mean-group estimation and construct a closed-form pooled identification. Considering the reduced-form VAR dynamics, residual covariances, and structural parameters, we derive a joint central limit…

通过Assemblage VAR构建宏观经济相关的气候指数AI 解读

What should a macroeconomically relevant climate index contain? The composition is inherently ambiguous, and aggregation choices affect structural inference. We introduce the Assemblage VAR, which jointly estimates nonnegative aggregation weights and VAR parameters by maximizing the system likelihood-gain criterion, effectively outsourcing aggregation to observed macroeconomic dynamics. Two variants operate in component-space and rank-space, reweighting named subcomponents…

藤Copula VAR：从递归边际估计到联合预测推断AI 解读

Joint-event forecasts often combine a dependence estimate based on past forecast errors with newly estimated marginal distributions. When each historical error retains the marginal fit available at its issue date, inference must account for an overlapping sequence of estimation errors. We derive their joint influence with the terminal forecast estimates in a stable Vine Copula VAR with normal innovation margins and a fixed, correctly specified Gaussian or positive Clayton…

非线性时间序列中的函数值因果影响AI 解读

Causal discovery in time series is increasingly performed using nonlinear machine-learning models, yet the resulting causal relationships are almost always summarized by scalar edge scores. We argue that this practice obscures the true object learned by nonlinear autoregressive models: a state-dependent function whose effect varies across regimes, magnitudes, and contexts. We formalize function-valued causal influence for additive, contribution-decomposable architectures and…

通过正交化自适应估计发现存在混杂的时间序列因果滞后结构AI 解读

Finding which variables cause which others in multivariate time series, and at what lags, is central to science and policy, yet existing methods force a choice between flexible confounder adjustment, data-driven lag selection, and inference that controls the false discovery rate (FDR). ORACLE-VARX does all three in one pipeline. First, double/debiased machine learning (DML) removes nonlinear confounder effects from the outcomes and the lagged series. Second, adaptive causal…

矩阵自回归模型的脉冲响应推断AI 解读

Matrix autoregressive (MAR) models offer a parsimonious framework for modeling matrix-valued time series, yet tools for estimation and inference for their impulse response functions are lacking. We develop asymptotic and bootstrap-based inference for impulse responses of stable MAR($p$) models. We derive the joint asymptotic distribution of the coefficient and covariance estimators, which permits closed-form delta-method standard errors. To address finite-sample bias, we…

控制政策与经济体制的非线性财政乘数AI 解读

A new form of the fiscal multiplier suited to data expressed as gross growth rates is proposed, together with a structural vector autoregression that isolates discretionary fiscal policy from regime and rule-based components. Because cumulating growth-rate responses over a horizon involves a product rather than a sum, the proposed multiplier is multiplicative: both numerator and denominator are polynomials in the size of the fiscal impulse, so the multiplier varies…

具有个性化多样性的个性化联邦向量自回归AI 解读

Personalized federated learning can improve estimation for high-dimensional time series while preserving client-specific dynamics. However, parameter heterogeneity creates a fundamental ambiguity between shared and personalized structure. We introduce the principle of personalization diversity, under which genuinely personalized effects recur in only a limited fraction of clients. Based on this principle, we propose PerFeCT-VAR, Personalized Federated Vector Autoregression…

We tackle the issue of producing point, sign, and density forecasts for the monthly real price of carbon in the European Union Emissions Trading System (EU ETS). We show that Bayesian Vector Autoregressive (BVAR) models augmented with factors based on macroeconomic and financial variables yield improvements in point and density forecasting performance, with the largest point-forecast gains emerging at intermediate and longer horizons. In particular, the one-factor BVAR model…

Comparing dependence structures between two related multivariate time series is of fundamental interest in many scientific applications, where changes may occur in both directed temporal interactions and contemporaneous connectivity. Modeling each time series by a vector autoregressive (VAR) model, we propose a new framework for estimation and inference of differential Granger causality (DiffGC) and differential network (DiffNet) structures in high dimensions. The proposed…

欧元区货币政策传导是否存在不对称性？AI 解读

We answer the question posed in the title with a nonlinear mixed-frequency vector autoregression, estimated with Bayesian additive regression trees. The model combines monthly macro-financial variables with quarterly bank lending survey data, and identifies the dynamic responses from high-frequency policy surprises. Sign asymmetry dominates; a tightening produces monetary policy transmission mostly in line with the theoretical predictions, whereas easing of any size produces…

矩阵时间序列的降秩自回归模型AI 解读

Matrix time series is a series of matrix data observed over time. Analytical tools for such time series is needed in many applications in finance, economics, engineering and many other fields. To avoid the use of vectorization of the matrices which loses the column and row information, and the vector autoregression framework in traditional time series analysis, \cite{chen2021autoregressive} proposed the Matrix Autoregressive (MAR) Model. The model maintains and utilizes the…

观察性时间序列动态因果效应的半参数推断AI 解读

In observational time series, statistical inference for dynamic causal effects of a one-time intervention across horizons is complicated by high-dimensional observed pre-treatment information, unmeasured confounding, and serial dependence. To address these challenges, we develop a semiparametric framework for inference from a single serially dependent time series, integrating debiased machine learning with instrumental variables through buffered block cross-fitting. Under…

具有 Cholesky 随机波动率的大型 VAR：贝叶斯推断、在线预测与模型选择AI 解读

We consider $K$-dimensional Bayesian vector autoregressions (BVARs) with Cholesky stochastic volatility (SV), in which the innovation covariance matrix is a lower-triangular linear transform of $K$ independent univariate SV processes. Such models are widely used in empirical macroeconomics to capture time-varying uncertainty and improve forecast accuracy, but the cost of posterior simulation is the binding constraint on the size of the system, and a major bottleneck for…

网络中的动态创新传导：理论、大 T 推断与滞后投入产出转换下的商业周期AI 解读

I develop an econometric framework that rationalizes the dynamics of a cross-sectional variable by lagged transmissions of innovations along bilateral links between units. While nesting the Spatial Autoregression and Spatial Error Model as limits and producing equivalent impulse-responses in the long run, the Network-Vector-Autoregression (NVAR) I propose can accommodate general transmission patterns over time and yields "networked" transition dynamics distinct from those…

宏观经济尾部风险的非线性驱动：区制依赖杠杆的门限随机波动均值VARAI 解读

The tails of macroeconomic outcomes can respond differently from the centre of their distribution: shocks with modest effects on median growth or inflation can shift downside growth or upside inflation risk. We develop a threshold stochastic-volatility-in-mean VAR with regime-dependent leverage to study their structural drivers. The model allows endogenous interactions between outcomes and volatility, contemporaneous level-volatility dependence, and regime-specific…

面向二元、删失与计数变量的大型贝叶斯VARAI 解读

We extend the vector autoregression (VAR) to model binary, censored, count and unrestricted variables jointly, treating missing observations of any type in the same way. Each restricted observation is linked to a latent Gaussian variable, so that the standard machinery for VARs, such as shrinkage priors, stochastic volatility and outlier components, applies directly to the VAR for the latent variables. The latent variables have a truncated normal conditional distribution…

NIRVAR：网络信息约束向量自回归AI 解读

High-dimensional panels of time series often arise in finance and macroeconomics, where co-movements within groups of panel components occur. Extracting these groupings from the data provides a coarse-grained description of the complex system in question and can inform subsequent prediction tasks. We develop a novel methodology to model such a panel as a restricted vector autoregressive process, where the coefficient matrix is the weighted adjacency matrix of a stochastic…

通过条件中心化进行非线性 Granger 因果的 RKHS 推断AI 解读

Granger causality is commonly formulated through linear prediction in vector autoregressive models, limiting its ability to detect nonlinear predictive relationships. We propose a reproducing kernel Hilbert space (RKHS)-based test for nonlinear Granger non-causality in conditional mean for nonlinear autoregressive processes. The key idea is a conditional-centering decomposition of the target regression function into an own-history component and an orthogonal component…

时间序列中的条件独立检验AI 解读

We consider the problem of testing Granger causality in time series, specifically, whether the future outcome $Y_{t+1}$ and the exposure history $\bar X_t$ are conditionally independent given the history of $\bar Y_t$ and a set of confounding variables $\bar Z_t$ up to time $t$. This testing procedure distinguishes true causal effects from associations driven by common external processes, supporting reliable decision-makings in applications such as finance, neuroscience, and…

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…

同时聚类正交化AI 解读

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…