Exogenous measures of monetary policy shocks, directly derived from financial market information, are used in close (U.S.) and open (U.S.-Germany) economy VAR models to evaluate the robustness of the dynamic effect of monetary policy obtained from traditional identified VAR. The empirical...

In this paper a new approach to factor vector autoregressive estimation, based on Stock and Watson (2005), is introduced. In addition to sharing all the relevant features of the Stock and Watson (2005) approach, in its static formulation, the proposed method has the advantage of allowing for a...