We introduce a structural vector autoregressive (SVAR) model with each of the mutually independent errors following a skewed generalized t-distribution that is more flexible than a Student's t-distribution typically considered. Hence, the effect of potential distributional misspecification is...

We revisit the generalized method of moments (GMM) estimation of the non-Gaussian structural vector autoregressive (SVAR) model. It is shown that in the n-dimensional SVAR model, global and local identification of the contemporaneous impact matrix is achieved with as few as n^2+n(n-1)/2 suitably...