# BVAR options - historical decomposition

**URL:** <https://forum.dynare.org/t/bvar-options-historical-decomposition/4034>\
**Category:** Dynare help (legacy posts)\
**Created:** [18 July 2014 08:37 UTC](https://forum.dynare.org/t/bvar-options-historical-decomposition/4034 "2014-07-18T08:37:24Z")\
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**Author:** ![joff](https://forum.dynare.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/8797f3/32.png) [@joff](https://forum.dynare.org/u/joff)\
**Post date:** [18 July 2014 08:37 UTC](https://forum.dynare.org/t/bvar-options-historical-decomposition/4034/1 "2014-07-18T08:37:24Z")

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Dear all,

Any suggestions on how to do historical decomposition after BVAR identified using bvar\_irf command? If I am not wrong shock\_decomposition does not work in this case. At the same time I am not able to find where are the identified shocks stored. Thank you in advance for your help.