Directed graphs and variable selection in large vector autoregressive models
将向量自回归模型中的动态关系表示为有向图，利用强连通分量选择变量，确保脉冲响应分析准确，实证表明可避免美国货币政策VAR中的“价格之谜”。
We represent the dynamic relation among variables in vector autoregressive (VAR) models as directed graphs. Based on these graphs, we identify so‐called strongly connected components. Using this graphical representation, we consider the problem of variable choice. We use the relations among the strongly connected components to select variables that need to be included in a VAR if interest is in impulse response analysis of a given set of variables. Our theoretical contributions show that the set of selected variables from the graphical method coincides with the set of variables that is multi‐step causal for the variables of interest by relating the paths in the graph to the coefficients of the ‘direct’ VAR representation. An empirical application illustrates the usefulness of the suggested approach: Including the selected variables into a small US monetary VAR is useful for impulse response analysis as it avoids the well‐known ‘price‐puzzle’.