We document that monetary policy has a substantial impact on innovation activities. After a tightening shock of 100 …-based aggregate innovation index, declines by up to 9 percent in the following 2 to 4 years. Based on previous estimates of the … sensitivity of output to innovation activities, these magnitudes imply that output could be 1 percent lower after another 5 years …

I use a Bayesian vector autoregressive (VAR) model to investigate the impact of monetary and technology shocks on the … euro area stock market in 1987-2005. I find an important role for technology shocks, but not monetary shocks, in explaining … variations in real stock prices. The identification method is flexible enough to study the effects of technology news shocks. The …