We propose a new approach to analyze economic shocks. Our new procedure identifies economic shocks as exogenous shifts in a function; hence, we call them “ functional shocks.” We show how to identify such shocks and how to trace their effects in the economy via VARs using “ ...

We propose a new approach to analyze economic shocks. Our new procedure identifies economic shocks as exogenous shifts in a function; hence, we call them "functional shocks." We show how to identify such shocks and how to trace their effects in the economy via VARs using "VARs with functional...

In this paper, we establish the consistency of the model selection criterion based on the quasi-marginal likelihood (QML) obtained from Laplace-type estimators. We consider cases in which parameters are strongly identified, weakly identified and partially identified. Our Monte Carlo results...