Paper #166

Título:

Testing calibrated general equilibrium models

Autores:

Fabio Canova y Eva Ortega

Fecha:

Marzo 1996

Resumen:

This paper illustrates the philosophy which forms the basis of calibration exercises in general equilibrium macroeconomic models and the details of the procedure, the advantages and the disadvantages of the approach, with particular reference to the issue of testing ``false'' economic models. We provide an overview of the most recent simulation--based approaches to the testing problem and compare them to standard econometric methods used to test the fit of non--linear dynamic general equilibrium models. We illustrate how simulation--based techniques can be used to formally evaluate the fit of a calibrated model to the data and obtain ideas on how to improve the model design using a standard problem in the international real business cycle literature, i.e. whether a model with complete financial markets and no restrictions to capital mobility is able to reproduce the second order properties of aggregate saving and aggregate investment in an open economy.

Palabras clave:

Calibration, simulation, evaluation, saving and investment correlations

Códigos JEL:

C15, C52, D58

Área de investigación:

Macroeconomía y Economía Internacional

Publicado en:

In Mariano, Schuerman and Weeks (eds.)
Con el título:
Simualtion Methods in Econometrics

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