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will state space model be affected by Gaussian mixture shock

PostPosted: Fri Nov 04, 2016 6:45 pm
by Jesse
Dear All,
I just have a question. If one of my structural shocks follows a Gaussian mixture process, and I included it into my DSGE model, will my DSGE model can still be transformed into a state space model after log linearization?
Thank you and any ideas will be helpful!
Jesse

Re: will state space model be affected by Gaussian mixture s

PostPosted: Sat Nov 05, 2016 7:02 am
by jpfeifer
Due to the way first order perturbation works, your shock will always be approximated via its mean and variance, effectively being rendered a normal distribution.