Response of Venezuelan Output to Monetary Policy, Deficit Spending, and Currency Depreciation : A VAR Model

This study applies the VAR model to find possible responses of real GDP to selected macroeconomic variables in Venezuela. Based on an annual sample during 1961-2001, the author finds that the real GDP responds positively to a shock to real M2 , goverment déficit spending, exchange rate depreciation, and the lagged output and negatively to a shock to the inflation rate during some of the time periods. Except for the lagged output, government deficit spending and the inflation rate are the most influential variable in the first year, and real M2 and the real exchange rate are more influential and have longer - term after the first year