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Measuring the effects of monetary policy: a factor-augmented vector autoregressive (FAVAR) approach
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TL;DR: In this article, a factor-augmented structural vector autoregressions (FAVAR) methodology is proposed to identify the monetary transmission mechanism. But the authors do not provide a comprehensive and coherent picture of the effect of monetary policy on the economy.
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Abstract: Structural vector autoregressions (VARs) are widely used to trace out the effect of monetary policy innovations on the economy. However, the sparse information sets typically used in these empirical models lead to at least two potential problems with the results. First, to the extent that central banks and the private sector have information not reflected in the VAR, the measurement of policy innovations is likely to be contaminated. A second problem is that impulse responses can be observed only for the included variables, which generally constitute only a small subset of the variables that the researcher and policymaker care about. In this paper we investigate one potential solution to this limited information problem, which combines the standard structural VAR analysis with recent developments in factor analysis for large data sets. We find that the information that our factor-augmented VAR (FAVAR) methodology exploits is indeed important to properly identify the monetary transmission mechanism. Overall, our results provide a comprehensive and coherent picture of the effect of monetary policy on the economy.
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Simon Kuznets
- 13 Aug 2024
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