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On the structural interpretation of the Smets-Wouters "risk premium" shock

This article shows that the "risk premium" shock in Smets and Wouters (2007) can be interpreted as a structural shock to the demand for safe and liquid assets such as short-term US Treasury securities. Several implications of this interpretation are discussed.

Language
Englisch

Bibliographic citation
Series: Working Paper ; No. 2014-08

Classification
Wirtschaft
Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics: General
Subject
Smets-Wouters model
safe and liquid assets
money demand
risk premium shock
New Keynesian model
DSGE
flight-to-quality
liquidity preference

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Fisher, Jonas D. M.
Event
Veröffentlichung
(who)
Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
(where)
Chicago, IL
(when)
2014

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Object type

  • Arbeitspapier

Associated

  • Fisher, Jonas D. M.
  • Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago

Time of origin

  • 2014

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