Dear Allin,

Thanks for the reply. Now everything is clear ;-)

Best,
Henrique

2010/6/10 Allin Cottrell <cottrell@wfu.edu>

On Thu, 10 Jun 2010, Henrique Andrade wrote:

> Sorry for the silly question, but how can we use HAC standard errors in a
> VAR estimation? Why does Gretl give us the HC1 variant?

It use HC* since the general presumption is that in a VAR you have
chosen a lag length sufficient to whiten the residuals, so HAC is
redundant.

Allin Cottrell
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