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Mixing long-run and short-run restrictions in SVAR

Posted: Thu Jan 20, 2011 10:35 pm
by cath_xx
Hi

I am trying to estimate a SVAR like the one in Smets and Tsatsaronis (1997) and Gali (1992). The identification scheme involves a mixture of long-run and short-run restrictions. The EViews Manual says I cannot mix them but then I found this post http://forums.eviews.com/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=970 which confused me.

So is there ANY way to do it in EViews? If not, does anyone know any other package that would do it? Or do I have to resort to MATLAB (I guess?) or something else?

I use EViews 7 btw.

Many thanks!!

Re: Mixing long-run and short-run restrictions in SVAR

Posted: Sun Nov 13, 2011 9:41 am
by rihara
I have the same problem.
ANYONE?

Re: Mixing long-run and short-run restrictions in SVAR

Posted: Tue Nov 15, 2011 10:49 am
by EViews Gareth
As stated in the manual, EViews doesn't support mixing long-run and short-run restrictions.

The information in that post is meant to suggest that updating to the latest version will fix the "Internal error 500" problem. It will not allow you to mix short run and long run restrictions, though.

Re: Mixing long-run and short-run restrictions in SVAR

Posted: Thu Nov 17, 2011 3:57 am
by donihue
FYI, RATS can estimate an SVAR with both SR and LR restrictions
Regards
Donihue