Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/201673 
Year of Publication: 
2018
Series/Report no.: 
Working Papers in Economics No. 2018-05
Publisher: 
University of Salzburg, Department of Social Sciences and Economics, Salzburg
Abstract: 
We propose a straightforward algorithm to estimate large Bayesian time-varying parameter vector autoregressions with mixture innovation components for each coefficient in the system. The computational burden becomes manageable by approximating the mixture indicators driving the time-variation in the coefficients with a latent threshold process that depends on the absolute size of the shocks. Two applications illustrate the merits of our approach. First, we forecast the US term structure of interest rates and demonstrate forecast gains relative to benchmark models. Second, we apply our approach to US macroeconomic data and find significant evidence for time-varying effects of a monetary policy tightening.
Subjects: 
Time-varying parameter vector autoregression with stochastic volatility (TVP-VARSV)
Change point model
Structural breaks
Term structure of interest rates
Monetary policy
R package threshtvp
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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