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This paper proposes to estimate the effects of monetary policy shocks by a new ``agnostic'' method, imposing sign restrictions on the impulse responses of prices, nonborrowed reserves and the federal funds rate in response to a monetary policy shock. No restrictions are imposed on the response...
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In this Paper we study identification in dynamic factor models and argue that factor models are better suited than VARs … be small, so that only a few restrictions are needed to reach identification. Economic interpretation is then easier. On …
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estimate this model it is necessary to impose strong identification restrictions. Estimation results show that education is the …
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that the parameters of this VAR are unstable. However, using our proposed identification method we are able to attribute …
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We study identification in a class of linear rational expectations models. For any given exactly identified model, we …
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Switzerland, traditionally a ‘zero unemployment’ economy, has seen an unprecedented rise in joblessness in the 1990s although unemployment fell again to a rather low level after 1997. This Paper tests whether Switzerland experienced a negative relative net demand shock against the low...
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practice has required an act of faith in the empirical plausibility of the delay restriction used for identification. An … identification. …
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Equilibrium business cycle models have typically less shocks than variables. As pointed out by Altug, 1989, and Sargent, 1989, if variables are measured with error, this characteristic implies that the model solution for measured variables has a factor structure. This Paper compares estimation...
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We investigate identification issues in DSGE models and their consequences for parameter estimation and model … equivalence, partial and weak identification problems are widespread and typically produced by an ill-behaved mapping between the … structural parameters and the coefficients of the solution. Different objective functions affect identification and small samples …
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It is sometimes argued that central banks influence the private economy in the short run through controlling a specific component of high powered money, not its total amount. Using a structural VAR approach, this paper evaluates this claim empirically, in the context of the Japanese economy. It...
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