Narrative sign restrictions around the October 1979 Volcker episode (Antolín-Díaz & Rubio-Ramírez, 2018), on a synthetic DGPLag-augmented vs Newey–West local projections (Plagborg-Møller & Wolf)A local projection on live FRED dataCholesky vs non-Gaussian SVAR impulse responsesSign-restricted SVAR: standard vs Giacomini–Kitagawa robust bandsProxy SVAR on a controlled synthetic DGP, Mertens–Ravn style
Replications on real data
Galí (1999): hours after a technology shock, in differences and in levelsKilian (2009): oil-market shocks and the historical decomposition of the real oil priceRamey & Zubairy (2018): state-dependent spending multipliers and weak-IV diagnosticsGalí (1999) and Mertens & Ravn (2013) from the built-in datasets
Structural models
Sequence-space HANK: wealth distribution, MPCs, responses to a rate hike and the JacobianA Dynare-style HANK bridge: Fake News Jacobian and a −25 bp monetary shockAn RBC model simulated from its Klein QZ policy functionBayesian DSGE with NUTS: traces and posteriorsPosterior distributions from the NUTS samplerDICE climate-macro: temperature, emissions, damages and the social cost of carbon
Time variation, regimes & volatility
TVP-VAR with stochastic volatility (KSC mixture sampler)Markov-switching VAR recession datingDCC time-varying correlation recovering a regime shiftGARCH-MIDAS: short-run volatility and a secular macro componentHAR model of realized volatilityBVAR fan charts from the Gibbs sampler
Data, nowcasting & text
Nowcasting GDP: latent factors, loadings and the news decompositionA hawkishness index from FOMC communication and its effect on rates and inflationNarrative tax shocks across G7 countriesReal-time data: how revisions change a series and its forecastWavelet variance decomposition across cycle lengthsPenalized forecasting with the elastic net and adaptive lasso