Questions tagged [dsge]
DSGE - Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium models.
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What is the appeal of DSGE models?
As far as I understand people like them, because they fit the data quite well when compared to VAR's for example while also having an economic interpretation.
They appear to explain observations in a ...
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How to derive the measurement equation for the state-space representation of a DSGE model?
DSGE models, after log-linearisation, have a state-space representation.
In this representation, in most papers, the measurement/observation equation is simply stated.
I'm wondering how one deduces ...
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Is there any mainstream criticism of the Benes-Kumhof conclusion that the Chicago Plan would improve the US economy nowadays?
A 2012 IMF Working paper by Benes and Kumhof "The Chicago Plan Revisited
" has this abstract, finding in favor of the Chicago Plan an all counts basically:
At the height of the Great Depression a ...
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Writing DSGE model in state space form
I keep returning to this example I’d like to try: I’m trying to estimate the likelihood of a nonlinearized DSGE model using a particle filter. While I understand particle filtering, I have little ...
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How can difference equations with an infinite summation be represented in matrix form?
I have derived the microeconomic foundations of a dsge model and I've obtained the IS and NKPC. I would like to represent them in matrix form to study the system. However the problem is that both ...
