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Across many fields in economics, a common approach to estimation of 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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- 10.1920/wp.cem.2020.1620
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- The IFS
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Jorgensen, T. (2020). Sensitivity to Calibrated Parameters. London: The IFS. Available at: https://ifs.org.uk/publications/sensitivity-calibrated-parameters (accessed: 30 April 2024).
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