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The Importance Of Common Cyclical Features in VAR Analysis: A Monte-Carlo Study

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  • Vahid, F.

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Despite the commonly held belief that aggregate data display short-run comovement, there has been little discussion about the econometric consequences of this feature of the data. We use exhaustive Monte-Carlo simulations to investigate the importance of restrictions implied by common-cyclical features for estimates and forecasts based on vector autoregressive models.

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Paper provided by Monash University, Department of Econometrics and Business Statistics in its series Monash Econometrics and Business Statistics Working Papers with number 2/01.

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Length: 20 pages
Date of creation: Mar 2001
Handle: RePEc:msh:ebswps:2001-2
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Keywords: Reduced rank models; model selection criteria; forecasting; variance decomposition;

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