helper_fit_comparison

Defines and fits models given the input parameters

internal

The output gap indicates the percentage difference between the actual output of an economy and its potential. Since potential output is a latent process, the estimation of the output gap poses a challenge and numerous filtering techniques have been proposed. 'RGAP' facilitates the estimation of a Cobb-Douglas production function type output gap, as suggested by the European Commission (Havik et al. 2014) <https://ideas.repec.org/p/euf/ecopap/0535.html>. To that end, the non-accelerating wage rate of unemployment (NAWRU) and the trend of total factor productivity (TFP) can be estimated in two bivariate unobserved component models by means of Kalman filtering and smoothing. 'RGAP' features a flexible modeling framework for the appropriate state-space models and offers frequentist as well as Bayesian estimation techniques. Additional functionalities include direct access to the 'AMECO' <https://economy-finance.ec.europa.eu/economic-research-and-databases/economic-databases/ameco-database_en> database and automated model selection procedures. See the paper by Streicher (2022) <http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11850/552089> for details.

Sina Streicher

RGAP

Production Function Output Gap Estimation

helper_fit_comparison function

<dl><dt>fit</dt>
<dd>Fitted object.</dd>
<dt>E1name</dt>
<dd>Name of first observation equation.</dd>
<dt>E1Trendname</dt>
<dd>Name of trend of first observation equation.</dd>
<dt>E1trans</dt>
<dd>Transformation function for the first observation equation..</dd>
<dt>fitBayes</dt>
<dd>Fitted Bayesian object.</dd></dl>

Arguments

model selection fit comparison helper function — helper_fit_comparison

<dl>

<dt>fit</dt>
<dd>Fitted object.</dd>


<dt>E1name</dt>
<dd>Name of first observation equation.</dd>


<dt>E1Trendname</dt>
<dd>Name of trend of first observation equation.</dd>


<dt>E1trans</dt>
<dd>Transformation function for the first observation equation..</dd>


<dt>fitBayes</dt>
<dd>Fitted Bayesian object.</dd>

</dl>

helper_fit_comparison: model selection fit comparison helper function

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