We study inflation targeting?s impact in Sweden over time and whether its adoption has constituted a regime switch using a msvar technique. We assess, based on two different specifications, the two main features generally attributed to it: the preference for inflation in the monetary reaction...

Assessing the discretionary component of a fiscal policy is a difficult task. With a vector autoregressive model of the us economy and thanks to an original identification procedure, Blanchard and Perotti [2002, qje] were able to estimate thoroughly the impact on gdp of a discretionary shock on...

A structural var model is used to investigate the relative importance of interest rate, exchange rate and credit channels in the monetary policy transmission in the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland between 1995 and 2004. Main results are as follows. First, responses of industrial production to...

This article studies the impact of oil shocks on the macroeconomy in two ways insofar unexploited in the literature. The analysis is conducted at the global level, and it explicitly accounts for the potentially changing nature of oil shocks. Constructing an original world gdp series and grouping...