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 …

shock proxies on the estimated impulse responses from these SVAR models. We show via a Monte Carlo experiment that … uncertainty shock proxy as an instrument to identify the underlying shock does not suffer from this bias. Applying this proxy SVAR …

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. …

shock has remained fairly stable. Simulations from a non-linear DSGE model suggest that these empirical results are …