Dynamic stochastic general equilibrium (DSGE) models have become increasingly popular as a policy tool in central banks in the past few years. The advantage of this approach is that the macroeconomic model is derived from microeconomic principles by spelling out the preferences, technologies and...

Görtz et al. (2022) estimate the effects of innovations to future total factor productivity (TFP) on financial markets. In a Bayesian vector autoregression, they identify a TFP news shock as one that explains the largest share of 40-quarter ahead forecast error variance (FEV) of TFP. Their...

We examine the dynamic effects and empirical role of TFP news shocks in the context of frictions in financial markets. We document two new facts using VAR methods. First, a (positive) shock to future TFP generates a significant decline in various credit spread indicators considered in the...