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Noninformative priors and frequentist risks of bayesian estimators of vector-autoregressive models

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  • Ni, Shawn & Sun, Dongchu, 2003. "Noninformative priors and frequentist risks of bayesian estimators of vector-autoregressive models," Journal of Econometrics, Elsevier, vol. 115(1), pages 159-197, July.
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