In this paper, we investigate the instability in a self-exciting regime-switchingautoregressive model that is locally stable in each of its regimes respectively. It turnsout that the stability locally in each of the regimes is not sufficient to guarantee thestability of the model. The mechanism...

Monetary responses to financial stress have recently become an important issue in macroeconomic and policy discussions in the USA as well as in the EU. In this paper, the authors study two regimes of monetary responses. While the fundamentals of an economy are assumed to have a long-run...