Hi, I would like to estimate a VAR of the form:
Ay_t = By_t-1 + Cy_t-2 + ... + Dx_t + e_t Where A is a non-diagonal matrix of coefficients, B and C are matricies of coefficients and D is a matrix of coefficients for the exogenous variables. I don't think the package {vars} can do this because I want to include contemporaneous cross-variable impacts. So I want y1_t to affect y2_t and I think in {vars} I can only have y1_t-1 affect y2_t. {vars} will only allow VARs of the form: y_t = By_t-1 + Cy_t-2 + ... + Dx_t + e_t Solutions? Maybe another package? Or maybe I'm thinking about this wrong? (And I know that I have to put constraints on A to get identification - I'm willing to do that). Thanks, Mitch Downey ______________________________________________ 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.