The restriction of exogeneity of certain variables in structural VAR models is rarely tested for consistency with the actual data. The reason is obvious: such a test requires estimates of the structural parameters. This paper proposes a solution for models that assume long-run or contemporaneous...

Two structural cointegrated models of consumption, labor income and wealth are specified and estimated with US data using the approach of Pagan and Pesaran (2008). We find that consumption and labor income are weakly exogenous in the estimated reduced form model and show that this imposes...

One of the key differences between exogenous and endogenous growth models is that a transitory shock to investment share exhibits different long-run effects on per-capita output. Exploring this difference, the present paper evaluates the empirical relevance of the two growth models for the G-7...

In their VAR model, Blanchard and Quah (BQ, 1989) employed uncorrelatedness between Aggregate Supply (AS) and Aggregate Demand (AD) shocks and the long-run output neutrality condition as identifying assumptions. This article conducts a simple Monte Carlo experiment to gauge how well the BQ...

This paper develops a model for optimal capital investment in continuous time when both existing and new capital stocks are subject to uncertainty. The model is generalized to allow for large and infrequent changes in the dynamics of the capital stock, which may arise as a result of natural and...

type="main" xml:id="ecor12096-abs-0001" <p>This study investigates the validity of technology shocks as a driving force of US business cycle fluctuations. Using three well-known structural vector autoregression (SVAR) models, we analyse how structural shocks are associated with the variations of...</p>

Australian time series for the nominal interest rate, real output, the nominal exchange rate, prices and nominal money since 1973 are characterized by a vector autoregressive process driven by five exogenous disturbances. Those disturbances are identified so that they can be interpreted as the...

There is a considerable discrepancy between GDP estimates which should be equal to one another. A method of allocating this discrepancy is proposed to derive an accurate measure of GDP with applications to the US and Korean economies.