Changing macroeconomic dynamics at the zero lower bound

Liu, Philip, Theodoridis, Konstantinos ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4039-3895, Mumtaz, Haroon and Zanetti, Francesco 2019. Changing macroeconomic dynamics at the zero lower bound. Journal of Business and Economic Statistics 37 (3) , pp. 391-404. 10.1080/07350015.2017.1350186

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Abstract

This article develops a change-point VAR model that isolates four major macroeconomic regimes in the US since the 1960s. The model identifies shocks to demand, supply, monetary policy, and spread yield using restrictions from a general equilibrium model. The analysis discloses important changes to the statistical properties of key macroeconomic variables and their responses to the identified shocks. During the crisis period, spread shocks became more important for movements in unemployment and inflation. A counterfactual exercise evaluates the importance of lower bond-yield spread during the crises and suggests that the Fed’s large-scale asset purchases helped lower the unemployment rate by about 0.6 percentage points, while boosting inflation by about 1 percentage point.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Business (Including Economics)
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
ISSN:	0735-0015
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	14 October 2018
Date of Acceptance:	24 July 2017
Last Modified:	06 Nov 2023 17:48
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/115880

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