TY - T1 - svars: An R Package for Data-Driven Identification in Multivariate Time Series Analysis SN - / UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10138/335987 T3 - A1 - Lange, Alexander; Dalheimer, Bernhard; Herwartz, Helmut; Maxand, Simone A2 - PB - Y1 - 2021 LA - eng AB - Structural vector autoregressive (SVAR) models are frequently applied to trace the contemporaneous linkages among (macroeconomic) variables back to an interplay of orthogonal structural shocks. Under Gaussianity the structural parameters are unidentified without additional (often external and not data-based) information. In contrast, the often reasonable assumption of heteroskedastic and/or non-Gaussian model disturbances offers the possibility to identify unique structural shocks. We describe t... VO - IS - SP - OP - KW - 112 Statistics and probability; 113 Computer and information sciences; SVAR models; identification; independent components; non-Gaussian maximum likelihood; changes in volatility; smooth transition covariance; R; STRUCTURAL VECTOR AUTOREGRESSIONS; INDEPENDENT COMPONENT ANALYSIS; MONETARY-POLICY SHOCKS; CONDITIONAL HETEROSKEDASTICITY; STATISTICAL IDENTIFICATION; MODELS; BOOTSTRAP; INFERENCE; DYNAMICS; TESTS N1 - PP - ER -