TY  - JOUR
AU  - Fair,Ray C.
TI  - VAR Models as Structural Approximations
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 2495
PY  - 1988
Y2  - February 1988
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w2495
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w2495.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
Ray C. Fair
Cowles Foundation
P.O. Box 208281
Yale University
New Haven, CT  06520-8281
E-Mail: ray.fair@yale.edu
AB  - This paper presents a way of estimating how accurate VAR models are likely to be for answering structural questions. Data are generated from a dynamic deterministic solution of a structural model; a VAR model is estimated using a subset of these data; and the properties of the VAR model are compared to the properties of the structural model. This procedure has the advantage of eliminating the effects of error terms, since the data are generated from a deterministic simulation. The results show that the VAR models do not seem to be good structural approximations.
ER  -