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st: re: irf: change innovation
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Nadine said
I want to create an irf for a negative innovation. I read that the
standard
innovation is a positive one-unit shock and I was wondering whether/
how it
is possible to change the type of the innovation?
For a linear IRF, or impulse response function (which will be
forthcoming from a linear VAR) the effect of (k x \sigma) is k times
the effect of 1 \sigma, where k is any real number (including -1).
Thus one can calculate the effect of any scaling of the standard +1
\sigma shock from the reported IRF.
Nonlinear IRFs (resulting from nonlinear models) generally require
something like Monte Carlo simulation, as with a nonlinear IRF the
magnitude of (k x \sigma) is not predictable from +1 \sigma. The IRF
may be asymmetric. For something along these lines see Baum, Caglayan,
Ozkan, J Applied Econometrics 2004, available in working paper form
(BC EC WP 488) from my homepage below.
Kit Baum, Boston College Economics and DIW Berlin
http://ideas.repec.org/e/pba1.html
An Introduction to Modern Econometrics Using Stata:e
http://www.stata-press.com/books/imeus.html
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