Monetary Transmission in Three Central European Economies: Evidence from Time-Varying Coefficient Vector Autoregressions

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This paper studies the transmission of monetary policy to macroeconomic variables in three new EU Member States in comparison with that in the euro area with structural time-varying coefficient vector autoregressions. In line with the Lucas Critique reduced-form models like standard VARs are not invariant to changes in policy regimes. The countries we study have experienced changes in monetary policy regimes and went through substantial structural changes, which call for the use of a time-varying parameter analysis. Our results indicate that in the euro area the impact on output of a monetary shock have decreased in time while in the new member states of the EU both decreases and increases can be observed. At the last observation of our sample, the second quarter of 2008, monetary policy was the most powerful in Poland and comparable in strength to that in the euro area, the least powerful responses were observed in Hungary while the Czech Republic lied in between. We explain these results by the credibility of monetary policy, openness and the share of foreign currency loans.

Object Details

• ISBN: 978-963-9796-64-5
• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: IEHAS Discussion Papers ; No. MT-DP - 2009/13

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Multiple or Simultaneous Equation Models: Time-Series Models; Dynamic Quantile Regressions; Dynamic Treatment Effect Models; Diffusion Processes; State Space Models ; Monetary Policy, Central Banking, and the Supply of Money and Credit: General
• Subject: monetary transmission ; time-varying coefficient vector autoregressions ; Kalman-filter ; Geldpolitische Transmission ; VAR-Modell ; Zustandsraummodell ; Tschechische Republik ; Polen ; Ungarn

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Darvas, Zsolt
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Economics
• (where): Budapest
• (when): 2009

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/108162
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