We identify US defense news shocks as shocks that best explain future movements in defense spending over a five-year horizon and are orthogonal to current defense spending. Our identified shocks are strongly correlated with the Ramey (2011) news shocks, but explain a larger share of...

This paper uses Structural Vector Autoregression models with appropriate short run restrictions to see the response of output, price and exchange rate to an exogenous monetary policy shock in Bangladesh. The impulse response functions show that an independent increase in policy interest rate is...

A structural vector autoregressive model is employed to investigate the impact of monetary policy and real exchange rate shocks on the stock market performance of Kuwait, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Jordan. In order to identify the structural shocks both short run and long run restrictions are...

Bu çalışmanın temel amacı, Türkiye ekonomisi için Yapısal VAR yöntemi kullanılarak NAIRU tahmini elde etmektir. NAIRU, ölçülen işsizlik oranının uzun dönemde enflasyonla ilişkisiz kısmı olarak tanımlanmıştır. 1998:01-2011:01 dönemine ait üç aylık işsizlik oranı ve...

Can discretionary fiscal policy effectively stimulate output? This paper examines this question in the context of developing Asia, where many countries implemented fiscal stimulus measures to support domestic demand during the global crisis. Economic conditions normalized after the crisis but...