I study the spill-over effects of legislated discretionary tax changes in the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom to 11 Eurozone countries for the period 1980Q1-2018Q4 employing Local Projections (Jordà, 2005). In general, I find spillovers from US tax legislation to have the...

This study provides a detailed investigation of the time-frequency and frequency-domain analysis of the interconnectedness of country-level macroeconomic variables. Hence, the wavelet techniques-vector wavelet and wavelet multiple-employed with TVP-VAR are utilised as a robustness check. The...

We use a dynamic factor model to provide a semi-structural representation for 101 quarterly US macroeconomic series. We find that (i) the US economy is well described by a number of structural shocks between two and five. Focusing on the four-shock specification, we identify, using sign...