Working Paper

Sensitivity to calibrated parameters

Authors

Thomas Høgholm Jørgensen

Published Date

12 March 2021

Type

Working Paper (CWP13/21)

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.


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Sensitivity to Calibrated Parameters
Thomas Høgholm Jørgensen
CWP16/20