LEVEL 08 · 40 MIN

The Time Machine

Trace financial shocks across the economic timeline.

Policy shocks do not arrive all at once. Build a defensible lag structure, recover impact and cumulative effects, compress long response paths carefully, and keep dynamic diagnostics and identification risks visible.

MISSION OBJECTIVES

  • Distinguish distributed-lag from autoregressive models.
  • Interpret impact, interim, and long-run multipliers.
  • Choose a lag horizon using economic timing and statistical evidence.
  • Explain the restrictions behind Koyck and Almon lag models.
  • Estimate, diagnose, and report a dynamic financial model without causal overclaiming.