Semiparametric inference for impulse response functions using double/debiased machine learning

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2411.10009v1
• Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2024 07:42:02 GMT
• Title: Semiparametric inference for impulse response functions using double/debiased machine learning
• Authors: Daniele Ballinari, Alexander Wehrli,
• Abstract summary: We introduce a machine learning estimator for the impulse response function (IRF) in settings where a time series of interest is subjected to multiple discrete treatments. The proposed estimator can rely on fully nonparametric relations between treatment and outcome variables, opening up the possibility to use flexible machine learning approaches to estimate IRFs.
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• Abstract: We introduce a double/debiased machine learning (DML) estimator for the impulse response function (IRF) in settings where a time series of interest is subjected to multiple discrete treatments, assigned over time, which can have a causal effect on future outcomes. The proposed estimator can rely on fully nonparametric relations between treatment and outcome variables, opening up the possibility to use flexible machine learning approaches to estimate IRFs. To this end, we extend the theory of DML from an i.i.d. to a time series setting and show that the proposed DML estimator for the IRF is consistent and asymptotically normally distributed at the parametric rate, allowing for semiparametric inference for dynamic effects in a time series setting. The properties of the estimator are validated numerically in finite samples by applying it to learn the IRF in the presence of serial dependence in both the confounder and observation innovation processes. We also illustrate the methodology empirically by applying it to the estimation of the effects of macroeconomic shocks.

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