Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/65735 
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Year of Publication: 
2008
Series/Report no.: 
Cardiff Economics Working Papers No. E2008/10
Publisher: 
Cardiff University, Cardiff Business School, Cardiff
Abstract: 
Let e and Σ be respectively the vector of shocks and its variance covariance matrix in a linear system of equations in reduced form. This article shows that a unique orthogonal variance decomposition can be obtained if we impose a restriction that maximizes the trace of A, a positive definite matrix such that Az = e where z is vector of uncorrelated shocks with unit variance. Such a restriction is meaningful in that it associates the largest possible weight for each element in e with its corresponding element in z. It turns out that A = Σ[...] , the square root of Σ.
Subjects: 
Variance decomposition
Cholesky decomposition
unique orthogonal decomposition and square root matrix
JEL: 
C01
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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