Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/87041 
Year of Publication: 
2010
Series/Report no.: 
Tinbergen Institute Discussion Paper No. 10-050/4
Publisher: 
Tinbergen Institute, Amsterdam and Rotterdam
Abstract: 
The empirical support for a real business cycle model with two technology shocks is evaluated using a Bayesian model averaging procedure. This procedure makes use of a finite mixture of many models within the class ofvector autoregressive (VAR) processes. The linear VAR model is extendedto permit cointegration, a range of deterministic processes, equilibrium restrictions and restrictions on long-run responses to technology shocks. Wefind support for a number of the features implied by the real business cyclemodel. For example, restricting long run responses to identify technologyshocks has reasonable support and important implications for the short runresponses to these shocks. Further, there is evidence that savings and investment ratios form stable relationships, but technology shocks do not accountfor all stochastic trends in our system. There is uncertainty as to the mostappropriate model for our data, with thirteen models receiving similar support, and the model or model set used has signficant implications for theresults obtained.
Subjects: 
Posterior probability
Real business cycle model
Cointegration
Model averaging
Stochastic trend
Impulse response
Vector autoregressive model
JEL: 
C11
C32
C52
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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