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Please can somebody tell me how to obtain the orthogonal complement of A and B matrices of VECM? I'm aware this can be programmed but I can't get a handle on it. I tried to use SVD to obtain the null space following MATLAB null.m, yet SVD in Eviews does not seem to give the whole matrices needed.

I'm a bit confused as to what you've done. Can you describe how you called the SVD?

Thank you Glenn for your quick response.
The code I'm trying to replicate is this:

function Z = null(A,how)

[m,n] = size(A);
if (nargin > 1) && isequal(how,'r')

% Rational basis

[R,pivcol] = rref(A);
r = length(pivcol);
nopiv = 1:n;
nopiv(pivcol) = [];
Z = zeros(n,n-r,class(A));
if n > r
Z(nopiv,:) = eye(n-r,n-r,class(A));
if r > 0
Z(pivcol,:) = -R(1:r,nopiv);
end
end
else

% Orthonormal basis

[U,S,V] = svd(A,0);
if m > 1, s = diag(S);
elseif m == 1, s = S(1);
else s = 0;
end
tol = max(m,n) * max(s) * eps(class(A));
r = sum(s > tol);
Z = V(:,r+1:n);
end

I am particularly interested in the Orthonormal basis part of the code since I was able to replicate the rref and this is the Eviews version I came up with:

'input matrix A -- just an example
matrix(4,3) A
A.fill(b=r) 3,2,1,2,2,3,5,4,5,1,3,4
'code actually starts from here
!nrow=@rows(A)
!ncol=@columns(A)
matrix W
vector V
matrix U=@svd(A,V,W)
if !nrow>1 then
vector s=V
else if !nrow=1 then
vector s=V(1)
else
vector s=0
endif
endif
!ns=@rows(s)
vector(2) dims
dims(1)=!nrow
dims(2)=!ncol
!tol=@max(dims)*@max(s)*1.49e-8
vector(!ns) eps=!tol
!r=@sum(@egt(s,eps))
matrix z=@subextract(U,1,1,!ncol,!r+1)

'I get "out of range" error message, whereas using the the matlab code I was able to obtain the result.

What did Matlab give you for that result? There aren't any zeros in the diagonal which is why you are getting an error in EViews (since it's trying to go beyond the original matrix size).

Here's a cleaned up version which simplifies things a bit and tests for the dimensionality of the subspace.

Thank you Glenn. I have reviewed your code. It seems to work fine for square matrix. For rectangular matrix, as in the example given below, they don't come close. I compare the following Matlab result with the one from Eviews and find that the orthogonal complement is the last two columns (in this example) of the matrix U, which are not reported in Eviews. Here is the example. Given matrix A=[3,2,1;2,2,3;5,4,5;1,3,4;3,1,6], we have the following:

[V,S,U]=svd(A')

V =

-0.5282 0.5529 0.6445
-0.4346 0.4760 -0.7645
-0.7295 -0.6839 -0.0111


S =

12.4482 0 0 0 0
0 3.1174 0 0 0
0 0 2.0795 0 0


U =

-0.2557 0.6180 0.1891 0.4442 0.5653
-0.3305 0.0019 -0.1316 -0.7841 0.5086
-0.6448 0.4005 0.0522 -0.1461 -0.6322
-0.3816 -0.2422 -0.8145 0.3533 0.0869
-0.5138 -0.6316 0.5299 0.2042 0.1204

The orthogonal complement is then given as
Aperp=null(A')

Aperp =

0.4442 0.5653
-0.7841 0.5086
-0.1461 -0.6322
0.3533 0.0869
0.2042 0.1204
These two columns are the last two columns of matrix U.

In Eviews, on the other hand, we have the following:

matrix(5,3) A
A.fill(b=r) 3,2,1,2,2,3,5,4,5,1,3,4,3,1,6
vector S
matrix V
matrix U=@svd(A,S,V)

V=
-0.528207 0.552860 0.644472
-0.434618 0.475999 -0.764547
-0.729455 -0.683938 -0.011143

S=diag(12.44820,3.117372,2.079515)

U=
-0.255725 0.618033 0.189072
-0.330491 0.001894 -0.131559
-0.644815 0.400531 0.052154
-0.381572 -0.242158 -0.814489
-0.513807 -0.631638 0.529936

The last two target columns are not reported, and that is the snag!

Thank you once again. I will like to have your view on this.

Ah, I see what your issue is...

EViews is reporting the economy form for the SVD for the non-square decomposition. If you want the full set of matrices required to do the subspace decomposition in the non-square case, you'll need to compute the eigenvalues directly.

I'll look into adding the alternate form of the SVD decomposition in future versions.