Drautzburg, Thorsten - In: Quantitative Economics 11 (2020) 2, pp. 801-837
Structural DSGE models are used for analyzing both policy and the sources of business cycles. Conclusions based on full … based on narrative shocks. This paper asks whether both approaches agree. Specifically, I use narrative data in a DSGE …-SVAR that partially identify policy shocks in the VAR and assess the fit of the DSGE model relative to this narrative benchmark …