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The 'Puzzles' methodology: En route to Indirect Inference?

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  • Le, Vo Phuong Mai
  • Minford, Patrick
  • Wickens, Michael

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We review the methods used in many papers to evaluate DSGE models by comparing their simulated moments with data moments. We compare these with the method of Indirect Inference to which they are closely related. We illustrate the comparison with contrasting assessments of a two-country model in two recent papers. We conclude that Indirect Inference is the proper end point of the puzzles methodology.

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Article provided by Elsevier in its journal Economic Modelling.

Volume (Year): 27 (2010)
Issue (Month): 6 (November)
Pages: 1417-1428

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Handle: RePEc:eee:ecmode:v:27:y:2010:i:6:p:1417-1428

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Keywords: Bootstrap US-EU model DSGE VAR Indirect Inference Wald statistic Anomaly Puzzle;

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  1. Davidson, James & Meenagh, David & Minford, Patrick & Wickens, Michael R., 2010. "Why crises happen - nonstationary macroeconomics," CEPR Discussion Papers 8157, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.
  2. Meenagh, David & Minford, Patrick & Nowell, Eric & Sofat, Prakriti, 2005. "Can a Real Business Cycle Model without price and wage stickiness explain UK real exchange rate behaviour?," Cardiff Economics Working Papers E2005/2, Cardiff University, Cardiff Business School, Economics Section, revised Mar 2010.
  3. Le, Vo Phuong Mai & Meenagh, David & Minford, Patrick & Wickens, Michael R., 2012. "Testing DSGE models by Indirect inference and other methods: some Monte Carlo experiments," CEPR Discussion Papers 9056, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.
  4. Minford, Patrick & Ou, Zhirong & Wickens, Michael, 2012. "Revisiting the Great Moderation using the Method of Indirect Inference," Cardiff Economics Working Papers E2012/9, Cardiff University, Cardiff Business School, Economics Section, revised May 2013.

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