Giacomini, Raffaella; Kitagawa, Toru; Read, Matthew - 2022
structural vector autoregression (SVAR): imposing 'narrative restrictions' (NR) on the shock signs in an otherwise setidentified … SVAR; and casting the information about the shock signs as a discretevalued 'narrative proxy' (NP) to point-identify the … impulse responses. The NP is likely to be 'weak' given that the sign of the shock is typically known in a small number of …