• Media type: E-Book; Report
  • Title: Sensitivity to Calibrated Parameters
  • Contributor: Jørgensen, Thomas H. [Author]
  • imprint: Copenhagen: University of Copenhagen, Department of Economics, Center for Economic Behavior and Inequality (CEBI), 2021
  • Language: English
  • Keywords: C60 ; C10 ; C52 ; sensitivity ; savings motives ; structural estimation ; transparency ; calibration
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  • Description: A common approach to estimation of dynamic economic models is to calibrate a sub-set of model parameters and keep them fixed when estimating the remaining parameters. Calibrated parameters likely affect conclusions based on the model but estimation time often makes a systematic investigation of the sensitivity to calibrated parameters infeasible. I propose a simple and computationally low-cost measure of the sensitivity of parameters and other objects of interest to the calibrated parameters. In the main empirical application, I revisit the analysis of life-cycle savings motives in Gourinchas and Parker (2002) and show that some estimates are sensitive to calibrations.
  • Access State: Open Access