Am 02.07.2018 um 16:46 schrieb Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti:
On Mon, 2 Jul 2018, Sven Schreiber wrote:
> Am 02.07.2018 um 11:59 schrieb Andreas Zervas:
>
>> I found out that although cointegration case 3 (unrestricted
>> constant) works well, case 4 (trend restricted to the cointegration
>> space) produces the following error message:
>>
>> Matrices not conformable for operation
>> *** error in function vecm_est, line 87
>> > matrix mu = olspar[1,] | (jalpha * jbeta[n+1,])'
>>
> Hm, this looks wrong indeed as a matrix product. Do I guess correctly
> that you have a rank higher than 1? If so, then it could be that this
> case has never been properly tested.
> The same problem would probably also happen for a restricted
> constant, could you try that just to check (also with rank > 1)?
It would be quite helpful if you could send us a script exposing the
problem.
If my hunch is correct then it should be exposed for any SVEC
specification with r>1 and d==2 or d==4. But I have no time to test
right now.
(Knowing that "you" wasn't me.)
cheers,
sven