Authors: Keweloh, Sascha Alexander
Hetzenecker, Stephan
Title: Efficiency gains in structural vector autoregressions by selecting informative higher-order moment conditions
Language (ISO): en
Abstract: This study combines block-recursive restrictions with non-Gaussian and mean independent shocks to derive identifying and overidentifying higher-order moment conditions for structural vector autoregressions. We show that overidentifying higher-order moments can contain additional information and increase the efficiency of the estimation. In particular, we prove that in the non-Gaussian recursive SVAR higher-order moment conditions are relevant and therefore, the frequently applied estimator based on the Cholesky decomposition is inefficient. Even though incorporating information in valid higher-order moments is asymptotically efficient, including many redundant and potentially even invalid moment conditions renders standard SVAR GMM estimators unreliable in finite samples. We apply a LASSO-type GMM estimator to select the relevant and valid higher-order moment conditions, increasing finite sample precision. A Monte Carlo experiment and an application to quarterly U.S. data illustrate the improved performance of the proposed estimator.
Subject Headings: SVAR
monetary policy
LASSO
block-recursive
non-Gaussianity
efficiency
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/2003/40578
http://dx.doi.org/10.17877/DE290R-22447
Issue Date: 2021
Appears in Collections:Sonderforschungsbereich (SFB) 823

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