shock volatilities provides the best model fit. Estimates from the selected DSGE model suggest that the mid-1970s were …

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 …

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 …