verify_volatility {bsvars}

Verifies heteroskedasticity of structural shocks equation by equation

Description

Computes the logarithm of Bayes factor for the homoskedasticity hypothesis for each of the structural shocks via Savage-Dickey Density Ration (SDDR). The hypothesis of homoskedasticity, H_0, is represented by model-specific restrictions. Consult help files for individual classes of models for details. The logarithm of Bayes factor for this hypothesis can be computed using the SDDR as the difference of logarithms of the marginal posterior distribution ordinate at the restriction less the marginal prior distribution ordinate at the same point:

log p(H_0 | data) - log p(H_0)

Therefore, a negative value of the difference is the evidence against homoskedasticity of the structural shock. The estimation of both elements of the difference requires numerical integration.

Usage

verify_volatility(posterior)

Arguments

posterior

the posterior element of the list from the estimation outcome

Value

An object of class SDDR that is a list of three components:

logSDDR an N-vector with values of the logarithm of the Bayes factors for the homoskedasticity hypothesis for each of the shocks

log_SDDR_se an N-vector with estimation standard errors of the logarithm of the Bayes factors reported in output element logSDDR that are computed based on 30 random sub-samples of the log-ordinates of the marginal posterior and prior distributions.

components a list of three components for the computation of the Bayes factor

log_denominator

an N-vector with values of the logarithm of the Bayes factor denominators

log_numerator

an N-vector with values of the logarithm of the Bayes factor numerators

log_numerator_s

an NxS matrix of the log-full conditional posterior density ordinates computed to estimate the numerator

se_components

an Nx30 matrix containing the log-Bayes factors on the basis of which the standard errors are computed

Author(s)

Tomasz Woźniak [e-mail]

References

Lütkepohl, H., and Woźniak, T., (2020) Bayesian Inference for Structural Vector Autoregressions Identified by Markov-Switching Heteroskedasticity. Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control 113, 103862, doi:10.1016/j.jedc.2020.103862.

Lütkepohl, H., Shang, F., Uzeda, L., and Woźniak, T., (2023) Partial Identification of Heteroskedastic Structural VARs: Theory and Bayesian Inference.

Examples

# simple workflow
############################################################
# upload data
data(us_fiscal_lsuw)

# specify the model and set seed
specification  = specify_bsvar_sv$new(us_fiscal_lsuw, p = 1)
set.seed(123)

# estimate the model
posterior      = estimate(specification, 10, thin = 1)

# verify heteroskedasticity
sddr           = verify_volatility(posterior)

# workflow with the pipe |>
############################################################
set.seed(123)
us_fiscal_lsuw |>
  specify_bsvar_sv$new(p = 1) |>
  estimate(S = 10, thin = 1) |> 
  verify_volatility() -> sddr