Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/88694 
Year of Publication: 
2013
Series/Report no.: 
ZEW Discussion Papers No. 13-111
Publisher: 
Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW), Mannheim
Abstract: 
In an influential recent paper, Beaudry and Portier (2006) propose a sequential approach for identifying technological news shocks. Thereby, the correlation coefficient between news shocks of a short-run identification scheme and technology shocks of a long-run identification scheme in the VAR framework measures the extent to which news incorporated into forward-looking variables could reflect future technological developments. While structural VARs can potentially provide a useful guide for modelers as well as policy-makers, the ability of such models to recuperate structural shocks in general and news shocks in particular from the data is a contentious issue in the literature. In the current paper, I find by means of Monte Carlo simulations that the sequential approach can be quite successful in recuperating technological news shocks from artificial data.
Subjects: 
News Shocks
Identification
Structural Vector Autoregressive Model
JEL: 
E32
C32
Persistent Identifier of the first edition: 
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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