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Local projections, autocorrelation, and efficiency

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  • Amaze Lusompa

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It is well known that Local Projections (LP) residuals are autocorrelated. Conventional wisdom says that LP have to be estimated by OLS and that GLS is not possible because the autocorrelation process is unknown and/or because the GLS estimator would be inconsistent. I show that the autocorrelation process of LP can be written as a Vector Moving Average (VMA) process of the Wold errors and impulse responses and that autocorrelation can be corrected for using a consistent GLS estimator. Monte Carlo simulations show that estimating LP with GLS can lead to more efficient estimates.

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  • Amaze Lusompa, 2023. "Local projections, autocorrelation, and efficiency," Quantitative Economics, Econometric Society, vol. 14(4), pages 1199-1220, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:wly:quante:v:14:y:2023:i:4:p:1199-1220
    DOI: 10.3982/QE1988
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