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This paper develops a 9-dimensional SVAR to investigate the sources of the U.S. business cycle. We extend the standard set of identified shocks to include unexpected changes in commodity prices. Our main result is that commodity price shocks are a very important driving force of macroeconomic...
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In recent years local projections have become a more and more popular methodology for the estimation of impulse …
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A common approach for estimating the macroeconomic effects of oil supply news employs SVAR-IV models identified using changes in oil futures prices around OPEC quota announcements as an instrument. However, we show that the reduced-form oil price innovations, structural shocks, and the...
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In this paper, we compare the transmission of a conventional monetary policy shock with that of an unexpected decrease … volatility, our results are two-fold: First, the spread shock works mainly through a boost to consumer wealth growth, while a … conventional monetary policy shock affects real output growth via a broad credit/bank lending channel. Second, both shocks exhibit …
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.S. output shock as it does to a corresponding euro area shock. The pivotal role of the U.S.A. in shaping the global business …
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identified shock has contributed to the business cycle fluctuations. - Business cycle accounting ; dynamic stochastic general …
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Bivariate SVAR models employing long-run identifying restrictions are often used to investigate the source of business cycle fluctuations. Their advantage is the simplicity in use and interpretation. However, their low dimension may also lead to a failure of the identification procedure, with...
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We examine the dynamic effects of credit shocks using a large data set of U.S. economic and financial indicators in a structural factor model. The identified credit shocks, interpreted as unexpected deteriorations of credit market conditions, immediately increase credit spreads, decrease rates...
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This paper studies regime dependence in macroeconomic dynamics in the U.S. using a threshold vector autoregressive model in which endogenous regime switches are triggered by the inflation rate. The model separates a high from a low inflation regime with both regimes being strongly persistent....
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In a recent paper, Mertens and Ravn (2010) study the effects of anticipated fiscal policy shocks in a structural vector autoregressive model. The authors maintain that (i) the lag polynomial associated with news shocks is a cyclotomic polynomial and (ii) the matrix B(L) which transforms a...
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