Chapter 16Calibration as Testing: Inference in Simulated Macroeconomic Models
Journal of Business and Economic Statistics 9(3), July 1991, pp. 297-303
Department of Economics, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, K7L 3N6, Canada
A stochastic macroeconomic model with no free parameters can be tested by comparing its features, such as moments, with those of data. Repeated simulation allows exact tests and gives the distribution of the sample moment under the null hypothesis that the model is true. We calculate the size of tests of the model studied by Mehra and Prescott. The approximate size of their test (which seeks to match model-generated, mean, risk-free interest rates and equity premia with historical ...
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