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Bootstrapping Macroeconometric Models
Studies in Nonlinear Dynamics & Econometrics (2007)
  • Ray C Fair, Yale University
Abstract
This paper outlines a bootstrapping approach to the estimation and analysis of macroeconometric models. It integrates for dynamic, nonlinear, simultaneous equation models the bootstrapping approach to evaluating estimators initiated by Efron (1979) and the stochastic simulation approach to evaluating models' properties initiated by Adelman and Adelman (1959). It also estimates for a particular model the gain in coverage accuracy from using bootstrap confidence intervals over asymptotic confidence intervals.
Keywords
  • bootstrap,
  • stochastic simulation,
  • macroeconometric models
Publication Date
January, 2007
Citation Information
Ray C. Fair. "Bootstrapping Macroeconometric Models" Studies in Nonlinear Dynamics & Econometrics 7.4 (2003). Available at: http://works.bepress.com/ray_fair/1