Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/59469 
Year of Publication: 
2011
Series/Report no.: 
Working Paper No. 2011-31
Publisher: 
Rutgers University, Department of Economics, New Brunswick, NJ
Abstract: 
We introduce two new methods for estimating the Marginal Data Density (MDD) from the Gibbs output, which are based on exploiting the analytical tractability condition. Such a condition requires that some parameter blocks can be analytically integrated out from the conditional posterior densities. Our estimators are applicable to densely parameterized time series models such as VARs or DFMs. An empirical application to six-variate VAR models shows that the bias of a fully computational estimator is sufficiently large to distort the implied model rankings. One estimator is fast enough to make multiple computations of MDDs in densely parameterized models feasible.
Subjects: 
marginal likelihood
Gibbs sampler
time series econometrics
Bayesian econometrics
reciprocal importance sampling
JEL: 
C11
C15
C16
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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