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The International Finance Discussion Papers logo links to the International Finance Discussion Papers home page The Robustness of Identified VAR Conclusions about Money
Jon Faust
1998-610  (April 1998)

Abstract:  This paper presents a new way to assess robustness of claims from identified VAR work. All possible identifications are checked for the one that is worst for the claim, subject to the restriction that the VAR produce reasonable impulse responses to shocks. The statistic on which the claim is based need not be identified; thus, one can assess claims in large models using minimal restrictions. The technique reveals only weak support for the claim that monetary policy shocks contribute a small portion of the forecast error variance of postwar U.S. output in standard 6-variable and 13-variable models.

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Keywords
Identification, VAR, monetary policy

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