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Computes posterior draws of structural shocks

Source: R/compute.R
compute_structural_shocks.PosteriorBSVARSIGN.Rd

Each of the draws from the posterior estimation of models from packages bsvars or bsvarSIGNs is transformed into a draw from the posterior distribution of the structural shocks.

Usage

# S3 method for class 'PosteriorBSVARSIGN'
compute_structural_shocks(posterior)

Arguments

posterior

posterior estimation outcome - an object of class PosteriorBSVARSIGN obtained by running the estimate function.

Value

An object of class PosteriorShocks, that is, an NxTxS array with attribute PosteriorShocks containing S draws of the structural shocks.

See also

estimate.BSVARSIGN, summary, plot

Author

Xiaolei Wang adamwang15@gmail.com and Tomasz Woźniak wozniak.tom@pm.me

Examples

# upload data
data(optimism)

# specify the model and set seed
set.seed(123)

# + no effect on productivity (zero restriction)
# + positive effect on stock prices (positive sign restriction) 
sign_irf       = matrix(c(0, 1, rep(NA, 23)), 5, 5)
specification  = specify_bsvarSIGN$new(optimism, sign_irf = sign_irf)

# estimate the model
posterior      = estimate(specification, 10)
#> **************************************************|
#>  bsvarSIGNs: Bayesian Structural VAR with sign,   |
#>              zero and narrative restrictions      |
#> **************************************************|
#>  Progress of simulation for 10 independent draws
#>  Press Esc to interrupt the computations
#> **************************************************|

# compute structural shocks
shocks         = compute_structural_shocks(posterior)

# workflow with the pipe |>
############################################################
set.seed(123)
optimism |>
  specify_bsvarSIGN$new(sign_irf = sign_irf) |> 
  estimate(S = 20) |> 
  compute_structural_shocks() -> ss
#> **************************************************|
#>  bsvarSIGNs: Bayesian Structural VAR with sign,   |
#>              zero and narrative restrictions      |
#> **************************************************|
#>  Progress of simulation for 20 independent draws
#>  Press Esc to interrupt the computations
#> **************************************************|