-robust approach is proposed to construct estimation and inference. Thirdly, this paper suggests a procedure to derive theory …

Epstein-Zin preferences to study the volatility implications of a monetary policy shock. An unexpected increases in the policy … volatility effects of the shock are driven by agents' concern about the (in)ability of the monetary authority to reverse …

the Maltese economy. The model focuses on five broad macroeconomic shocks hitting the euro area; an aggregate demand shock … global market for oil, a generic monetary policy shock encompassing both conventional and unconventional interventions, and a … financial stress shock. The model is estimated using Bayesian methods over a sample that goes from 2003Q1 to 2019Q4 and …

instrumental variable procedure to estimate the impact of the credit shock performs well and is relatively robust to measurement …, VARs of the narrative variety, i.e. VAR models that include measures of the credit shock as endogenous variables are highly … suggests, however, that the credit supply shock is hard to identify in practice. …

instruments is effective in recovering the underlying shock. In contrast, identification based on recursive schemes and …