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On ABCs (and Ds) of VAR representations of DSGE models

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  • Massimo Franchi

    () ("Sapienza" Universita' di Roma)

  • Paolo Paruolo

    () (Universita' dell'Insubria)

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This paper shows that the poor man's invertibility condition in Fernandez-Villaverde et al. (2007) is, in general, sufficient but not necessary for fundamentalness; that is, a violation of this condition does not necessarily imply the impossibility of recovering the structural shocks of a DSGE via a VAR. The permanent income model in Fernandez-Villaverde et al. (2007) is used to illustrate this fact. A necessary and sufficient condition for fundamentalness is formulated and its relations with the poor man's invertibility condition are discussed.

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Paper provided by Centre for Empirical Economics and Econometrics, Department of Statistics, "Sapienza" University of Rome in its series DSS Empirical Economics and Econometrics Working Papers Series with number 2012/4.

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Length: 8 pages
Date of creation: Jul 2012
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Handle: RePEc:sas:wpaper:20124

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Keywords: DSGE; VAR; invertibility; non-fundamentalness.;

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  1. Massimo Franchi & Anna Vidotto, 2012. "A simple check for VAR representations of DSGE models," DSS Empirical Economics and Econometrics Working Papers Series 2012/5, Centre for Empirical Economics and Econometrics, Department of Statistics, "Sapienza" University of Rome.

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