Structural vector-autoregressive models are potentially very useful tools for guiding both macro- and microeconomic policy. In this paper, we present a recently developed method for exploiting non-Gaussianity in the data for estimating such models, with the aim of capturing the causal structure...

The empirical results add to the literature on monetary policy in Laos with five important findings, which are: i) based on log- levels estimation, we find that money Granger- causes output, which lends support to the proposition that the BoL is likely to be successful in stabilizing the...