scholarly journals Inference in Structural Vector Autoregressions When the Identifying Assumptions are Not Fully Believed: Re-evaluating the Role of Monetary Policy in Economic Fluctuations

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christiane Baumeister ◽  
James Hamilton
Keyword(s):  
Monetary Policy ◽  
Economic Fluctuations ◽  
Vector Autoregressions ◽  
Structural Vector

scholarly journals Deconstructing Monetary Policy Surprises— The Role of Information Shocks

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-43 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marek Jarociński ◽  
Peter Karadi
Keyword(s):  
Monetary Policy ◽  
Central Bank ◽  
Interest Rates ◽  
Stock Prices ◽  
High Frequency ◽  
Structural Vector Autoregression ◽  
Role Of Information ◽  
Structural Vector ◽  
Economic Outlook

Central bank announcements simultaneously convey information about monetary policy and the central bank's assessment of the economic outlook. This paper disentangles these two components and studies their effect on the economy using a structural vector autoregression. It relies on the information inherent in high-frequency co-movement of interest rates and stock prices around policy announcements: a surprise policy tightening raises interest rates and reduces stock prices, while the complementary positive central bank information shock raises both. These two shocks have intuitive and very different effects on the economy. Ignoring the central bank information shocks biases the inference on monetary policy nonneutrality. (JEL D83, E43, E44, E52, E58, G14)

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