1. Home
  2. Journals
  3. Journal of Applied Econometrics
  4. US fiscal policy shocks:...
Allan W. Gregory
;
James McNeil
;
Gregor W. Smith

us fiscal policy shocks: proxy-svar overidentification via gmm (replication data)

Using external instruments one can recover the effects of individual shocks without fully identifying a VAR. We show that fully or almost fully instrumenting a VAR--that is, using an instrument for each shock--allows one to overidentify the model by incorporating the condition that the structural shocks are uncorrelated, via GMM. We apply our approach to a fiscal VAR for the US over 1948-2019, where the overidentifying restrictions are not rejected. The overidentified SVAR yields (a) greater precision in estimating impulse response functions and multipliers and (b) measures of the effects of non-fiscal shocks even when there is no instrument for them.

Data and Resources

Suggested Citation

export
Gregory, Allan W.; McNeil, James; Smith, Gregor W. (2023): US fiscal policy shocks: Proxy-SVAR overidentification via GMM (replication data). Version: 1. Journal of Applied Econometrics. Dataset. http://dx.doi.org/10.15456/jae.2023261.1237001711

Tags

JEL Codes