Arbeitspapier

Monetary policy shocks, set-identifying restrictions, and asset prices: A benchmarking approach for analyzing set-identified models

A central question for monetary policy is how asset prices respond to a monetary policy shock. We provide evidence on this issue by augmenting a monetary SVAR for US data with an asset price index, using set-identifying structural restrictions. The impulse responses show a positive asset price response to a contractionary monetary policy shock. The resulting monetary policy shocks correlate weakly with the Romer and Romer (2004) (RR) shocks, which matters greatly when analyzing impulse responses. Considering only models with shocks highly correlated with the RR series uncovers a negative, but near-zero response of asset prices.

Language
Englisch

Bibliographic citation
Series: cege Discussion Papers ; No. 295

Classification
Wirtschaft
Multiple or Simultaneous Equation Models: Time-Series Models; Dynamic Quantile Regressions; Dynamic Treatment Effect Models; Diffusion Processes; State Space Models
Financial Markets and the Macroeconomy
Monetary Policy
Subject
monetary policy shocks
asset prices
sign restrictions
zero restrictions
set identification
structural VAR models

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Uhrin, Gábor B.
Herwartz, Helmut
Event
Veröffentlichung
(who)
University of Göttingen, Center for European, Governance and Economic Development Research (cege)
(where)
Göttingen
(when)
2016

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  • Arbeitspapier

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  • Uhrin, Gábor B.
  • Herwartz, Helmut
  • University of Göttingen, Center for European, Governance and Economic Development Research (cege)

Time of origin

  • 2016

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