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What is a one standard deviation shock?

Posted: Tue Oct 30, 2012 10:57 pm
by trams
Hi everyone,

I would like to clarify the following:

1. A one standard deviation shock to variable x is simply a (1 unit/std deviation of x) shock to the structural errors?

2. The impulse responses are in standard deviation units if the data you've used are standardised?

Thanks! :)