Greetings statalisters,
I've got a question regarding constraints on variables in a VAR.
Consider the VARX below:
P = B1*P(t-1) + B2*Q(t-1) + B3*X1(t) + B4*X2(t) + e(t)
Q = B5*P(t-1) + B6*Q(t-1) + B7*X1(t) + B8*X2(t) + e(t)
It can be estimated by
-var P Q, exog(X1 X2) lags(1)
I want to constrain the coeff on X1 in the Q equation to be zero.
If the Xs were endogenous variables, I could have done:
constraint define 1 [Q] X1 = 0
var P Q, exog(X1 X2) constraint(1)
This doesn't seem to work. I get the error message
"regressor Q not found"
"at least one constraint in constraints(1) invalid"
Is there a way to constrain the X1 if its an exogenous variable?
Thanks in advance.
--John
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