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-2012) in the Polish economy. The empirical findings show that: (1) output appears more responsive to an interest rate shock at … the beginning of our sample. Since 2000, absorbing this shock has become less costly in terms of output, notwithstanding … some reversal since the beginning of the global financial crisis. The exchange rate shock also has a time-varying effect on …
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-t distribution. This reduces the estimation time of possibly several hours using conventional MCMC methods to less than a minute …
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algorithm for the estimation of the restricted models. We analyze a system of monthly US data on money and income. The test …
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the real economy) are procyclical and similar irrespective of regime. A positive shock to credit and a negative shock to …
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Small open economies within a monetary union have a limited range of stabilisation tools, as area-wide nominal interest and exchange rates do not respond to country-specific shocks. Such limitations imply that imbalances can be difficult to resolve. We assess the role that government spending...
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forecasts that are consistent with a (mostly forward-looking) New Keynesian Phillips Curve for the euro area. The estimation …
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and demand. A Bayesian estimation methodology with data augmentation for the latent variables is used. The analysis is …
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In the aftermath of the financial crisis, the role of monetary policy and macro-prudential regulation in promoting financial stability is under discussion. The old debate concerning whether monetary policy should respond to credit and asset price bubbles was revived, whereas macro-prudential...
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This paper studies factors behind inflation dynamics in the euro area, the UK and the US. It introduces a factor-augmented vector autoregression (FAVAR) framework with sign restrictions to study the effects of fundamental macroeconomic shocks on inflation in the three economies. The FAVAR model...
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