Forming priors for DSGE models (and how it affects the assessment of nominal rigidities)

Marco Del Negro and Frank Schorfheide

No 320, Staff Reports from Federal Reserve Bank of New York

Abstract: This paper discusses prior elicitation for the parameters of dynamic stochastic general equilibrium (DSGE) models and provides a method for constructing prior distributions for a subset of these parameters from beliefs about the moments of the endogenous variables. The empirical application studies the role of price and wage rigidities in a New Keynesian DSGE model and finds that standard macro time series cannot discriminate among theories that differ in the quantitative importance of nominal frictions.

Keywords: DSGE models; Bayesian analysis; prior elicitation; nominal rigidities; model comparisons (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C32 E30 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 39 pages
Date: 2008-03-01
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Note: For a published version of this report, see Marco Del Negro and Frank Schorfheide,"Forming Priors for DSGE Models (and How It Affects the Assessment of Nominal Rigidities)," Journal of Monetary Economics 55, no. 7 (October 2008): 1191-208.
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