I am fitting a reduced form VAR model using VAR in the vars library. I have several endogenous variables, and two exogenous variables. I would like to explore the effects of a shock to one of the exogenous variables on one of the endogenous variables. Using irf in the vars library only calculates the irf for the endogenous variables, this is obviously by design, is there some theoretical restriction on why it is not possible to look at the irf's from exogenous shocks? Is there anyway to look at the effects of exogenous shocks in R? Do I need to consider some sort of structural model?
the following code sample illustrates what I am trying to do and the problems I am having (I am not an econometrician, but I know that e would be better left as an endo variable, I just needed some common data to show what I am trying to do) data(Canada) attach(Canada) v.can<-VAR(Canada[,2:4],exogen=e, p = 2, type = "both") irf(v.can,impulse= "e", response="prod") thanks again, Spencer [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.