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Vector Autoregressions<br />

Macroeconometricians tend to do 4 things<br />

• Macroeconomic forecasts<br />

• Describe and organize data<br />

• Quantify what we do or do not know<br />

• Advise policy<br />

VAR has proved to be powerful and somewhat<br />

reliable for the first 2<br />

Generally there are 3 kinds of VARs<br />

• Reduced form<br />

• Recursive<br />

• Structural

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