Atheoretical macroeconometrics: A critique

TF Cooley, SF LeRoy - Journal of Monetary Economics, 1985 - Elsevier
The spurious nature of the restrictions used to identify many macroeconometric models has
led some researchers to advocate a style of econometric inquiry that is less dependent on …

[图书][B] Testing macroeconometric models

RC Fair - 1994 - degruyter.com
This book brings together my macroeconometric research of roughly the last decade. It is a
sequel to my previous book, Fair (1984), which brought together my macroeconometric …

Macroeconomics and reality

CA Sims - Econometrica: journal of the Econometric Society, 1980 - JSTOR
Existing strategies for econometric analysis related to macroeconomics are subject to a
number of serious objections, some recently formulated, some old. These objections are …

Judging the performance of econometric models of the US economy

CF Christ - International Economic Review, 1975 - JSTOR
ECONOMETRIC MODELS OF THE US economy have been developed to the point where
forecasters who use them can forecast real and nominal GNP two or three quarters ahead …

[PDF][PDF] Exogeneity and causal ordering in macroeconomic models

CA Sims - 1976 - conservancy.umn.edu
This paper aims to clarify the interpretation of exogeneity tests of the type Sargent [1973] and
I [1972] among others have applied, as well as the closely related tests proposed or used by …

The scientific illusion in empirical macroeconomics

LH Summers - The Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 1991 - JSTOR
It is argued that formal econometric work, where elaborate technique is used to apply theory
to data or isolate the direction of causal relationships when they are not obvious a priori …

[图书][B] A history of econometrics

RJ Epstein - 2014 - books.google.com
This comparative historical study of econometrics focuses on the development of
econometric methods and their application to macroeconomics. The analysis covers the …

Allowing the data to speak freely: The macroeconometrics of the cointegrated vector autoregression

KD Hoover, S Johansen, K Juselius - American Economic Review, 2008 - pubs.aeaweb.org
By Kevin D. Hoover, Søren Johansen, and Katarina Juselius* an initial condition 1the height
of the tower2, determines the distance the ball falls for each time… in theory. Of course, no …

Structural vs. atheoretic approaches to econometrics

MP Keane - Journal of Econometrics, 2010 - Elsevier
In this paper I attempt to lay out the sources of conflict between the so-called “structural” and
“experimentalist” camps in econometrics. Critics of the structural approach often assert that it …

[图书][B] A rational expectations approach to macroeconometrics: Testing policy ineffectiveness and efficient-markets models

FS Mishkin - 2007 - books.google.com
A Rational Expectations Approach to Macroeconometrics pursues a rational expectations
approach to the estimation of a class of models widely discussed in the macroeconomics …