no code implementations • 8 Jul 2022 • Joshua Chan, Eric Eisenstat, Xuewen Yu
We demonstrate the methodology through a structural analysis in which we use a 20-variable VAR with sign restrictions to identify 5 structural shocks.
no code implementations • 16 Jun 2022 • Joshua C. C. Chan, Xuewen Yu
We propose a new variational approximation of the joint posterior distribution of the log-volatility in the context of large Bayesian VARs.
no code implementations • 14 Nov 2021 • Joshua C. C. Chan, Gary Koop, Xuewen Yu
Many popular specifications for Vector Autoregressions (VARs) with multivariate stochastic volatility are not invariant to the way the variables are ordered due to the use of a Cholesky decomposition for the error covariance matrix.
no code implementations • 14 Feb 2020 • Xuewen Yu, Jim Q. Smith, Linda Nichols
Causal theory is now widely developed with many applications to medicine and public health.