We modify the Laubach-Williams and Holston-Laubach-Williams models of the natural rate of interest to account for time-varying volatility and a persistent COVID supply shock during the pandemic. Resulting estimates of the natural rate of interest in the United States, Canada, and the Euro Area...

This paper identifies the natural interest rate for the Macedonian economy using quarterly data for 2001Q4-2019Q3. To this end, the estimation is made by using different types of models, such as the Holston, Laubach, and Williams model and the full-fledged country-specific structural MAKPAM...

We extend and update the canonical methodology of Laubach and Williams (2003) to estimate the neutral rate of interest for the United States. Using quarterly data from 1940 through the present, we show that r-star has risen by approximately 100 bps since the Great Recession, to 1.5% today. We...

We modify the Laubach-Williams and Holston-Laubach-Williams models of the natural rate of interest to account for time-varying volatility and a persistent COVID supply shock during the pandemic. Resulting estimates of the natural rate of interest in the United States, Canada, and the Euro Area...

This paper estimates monetary policy shocks for Sweden between 1996-2019. I employ the Romer and Romer (2004) (R&R) approach and use annual forecasts of output growth and inflation to estimate monetary policy shocks. I complement the analysis with shocks from a recursive VAR including output,...

We introduce a structural vector autoregressive model containing strictly positive components. Our nonlinear model results in explicit formulae for impulse response and forecast error variance decomposition analyses, which ease practical computations and structural interpretations. We illustrate...

I study spillovers of US monetary policy to the rest of the world, as well as spillbacks to the US economy in an empirical multi-country model over time. Within the multilateral framework, I distinguish the bilateral effect from the network effects that arise from interactions among recipient...

Korean Abstract: 본 연구는 일반적인 형태의 뉴케인지언 DSGE 모형에 중앙은행 디지털화폐(central bank digital currency: CBDC)를 도입한 표준 모형을 제시하고, 이를 기반으로 CBDC 도입이 통화정책의 파급경로와 경제의 장단기 균형에...

We examine the causal relationship between US monetary policy shocks, exchange rates and currency excess returns for a sample of eight advanced countries over the period 1980M1 to 2022M11. We find that the dynamics of the US dollar exchange rate is the main driver of currency excess returns. The...