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BGVAR

Bayesian Global Vector Autoregressions

v2.5.9 · Sep 22, 2025 · GPL-3

Description

Estimation of Bayesian Global Vector Autoregressions (BGVAR) with different prior setups and the possibility to introduce stochastic volatility. Built-in priors include the Minnesota, the stochastic search variable selection and Normal-Gamma (NG) prior. For a reference see also Crespo Cuaresma, J., Feldkircher, M. and F. Huber (2016) "Forecasting with Global Vector Autoregressive Models: a Bayesian Approach", Journal of Applied Econometrics, Vol. 31(7), pp. 1371-1391 <doi:10.1002/jae.2504>. Post-processing functions allow for doing predictions, structurally identify the model with short-run or sign-restrictions and compute impulse response functions, historical decompositions and forecast error variance decompositions. Plotting functions are also available. The package has a companion paper: Boeck, M., Feldkircher, M. and F. Huber (2022) "BGVAR: Bayesian Global Vector Autoregressions with Shrinkage Priors in R", Journal of Statistical Software, Vol. 104(9), pp. 1-28 <doi:10.18637/jss.v104.i09>.

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Dependency Network

Dependencies Reverse dependencies abind bayesm coda GIGrvg knitr MASS Matrix Rcpp RcppParallel readxl stochvol xts zoo BGVAR

Version History

31 tracked
new 2.5.9 Mar 10, 2026
updated 2.5.9 ← 2.5.8 diff Sep 21, 2025
updated 2.5.8 ← 2.5.7 diff Sep 29, 2024
updated 2.5.7 ← 2.5.6 diff Jul 6, 2024
updated 2.5.6 ← 2.5.5 diff Jul 2, 2024
updated 2.5.5 ← 2.5.4 diff Dec 12, 2023
updated 2.5.4 ← 2.5.3 diff Dec 10, 2023
updated 2.5.3 ← 2.5.2 diff Dec 8, 2023
updated 2.5.2 ← 2.5.1 diff Oct 25, 2022
updated 2.5.1 ← 2.5.0 diff Sep 2, 2022
updated 2.5.0 ← 2.4.6 diff May 1, 2022
updated 2.4.6 ← 2.4.5 diff Apr 11, 2022
updated 2.4.5 ← 2.4.4 diff Apr 3, 2022
updated 2.4.4 ← 2.4.3 diff Mar 31, 2022
updated 2.4.3 ← 2.4.2 diff Nov 5, 2021