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Estimation and Inference of Impulse Responses by Local Projections

2005/02/01 by Òscar Jordà · 119 citations
Economics, Econometrics and Finance · #Monetary Policy and Economic Impact #Market Dynamics and Volatility #Economics of Agriculture and Food Markets

paper · doi:10.1257/0002828053828518

Abstract

This paper introduces methods to compute impulse responses without specification and estimation of the underlying multivariate dynamic system. The central idea consists in estimating local projections at each period of interest rather than extrapolating into increasingly distant horizons from a given model, as it is done with vector autoregressions (VAR). The advantages of local projections are numerous: (1) they can be estimated by simple regression techniques with standard regression packages; (2) they are more robust to misspecification; (3) joint or point-wise analytic inference is simple; and (4) they easily accommodate experimentation with highly nonlinear and flexible specifications that may be impractical in a multivariate context. Therefore, these methods are a natural alternative to estimating impulse responses from VARs. Monte Carlo evidence and an application to a simple, closed-economy, new-Keynesian model clarify these numerous advantages.

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