On Thu, 7 Jan 2010, Allin Cottrell wrote:
On Thu, 7 Jan 2010, Sven Schreiber wrote:
> Allin Cottrell schrieb:
>> The only "missing" accessor is $vcv for VECMs. That's because
>> I don't know what to do about the covariance block for \beta
>> and the other coefficients.
>>
>
> Well what one *could* do is to treat the error-correction terms
> as given due to the super-consistency (T-convergence) of the
> cointegration coefficients, and then the remaining system is
> just multi-equation OLS.
OK, I've added $vcv for VECMs on that basis. However, we don't
attempt it at present if \alpha is restricted.
Makes sense to me.
Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti
Dipartimento di Economia
Università Politecnica delle Marche
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http://www.econ.univpm.it/lucchetti