C3 - Multiple or Simultaneous Equation Models; Multiple Variables

• The Impact of the Global Business Cycle on Small Open Economies: A FAVAR Approach for Canada

  Staff Working Paper 2011-2 Garima Vasishtha, Philipp Maier

  Building on the growing evidence on the importance of large data sets for empirical macroeconomic modeling, we use a factor-augmented VAR (FAVAR) model with more than 260 series for 20 OECD countries to analyze how global developments affect the Canadian economy.

  Content Type(s): Staff research, Staff working papers Topic(s): Business fluctuations and cycles, Econometric and statistical methods, International topics JEL Code(s): C, C3, C32, F, F4, F41