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A method for taking models to the data

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Peter N. Ireland

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This paper develops a method for combining the power of a dynamic, stochastic, general-equilibrium model with the flexibility of a vector autoregressive time-series model to obtain a hybrid that can be taken directly to the data.

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Paper provided by Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland in its series Working Paper with number 9903.

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Date of creation: 1999
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Keywords: Econometric models ; Business cycles;

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