Applying ensemble modelling to VAR models
Emsemble learning is beneficial in forecasting where statistical adequacy of any model in the ensemble is of limited importance. However, when models are used for inference, statistical adequacy is quite important. The correctnes of the assumed null distribution of the test statistic depends (to a larger or smaller degree) on the statistical adequacy of the model. Violations of some modelling assumptions may lead to distortions of the critical values and thus the test size, making inference unrealiable. This is a common problem known from the model averaging literature. Only statistically adequate models may be averaged when the goal is inference (rather than forecasting), as otherwise the inference is unreliable. My explanation is a bit simplistic, but I hope it conveys the main idea.