Is DSGE-VAR model a type of structural VAR model?

[Jesse]

Dear Johannes,
Is DSGE-VAR model a type of structural VAR model? Using DSGE restrictions to identify VAR models?
Thank you and look forward to hearing from you.
Best regards,
Jesse

[jpfeifer]

As far as I understand, the DSGE-VAR identifies the structural shocks.

Question regarding intuition behind DSGE-VARs

Let me try to answer: Yes, it’s a structural VAR. See section 4.3 of Del Negro/Schorfheide (2004). My understanding is that you are estimating the DSGE model parameters by combining a prior on the DSGE model with combined DSGE model and VAR estimated on actual data. That way you get a posterior on the model parameters. Again, see Del Negro/Schorfheide (2004). If you now change the weight of the DSGE model fit relative to the VAR fit on the data, of course the posterior will change.