Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/260504 
Year of Publication: 
2021
Series/Report no.: 
Working Paper No. 934
Publisher: 
Queen Mary University of London, School of Economics and Finance, London
Abstract: 
I extend the Bayesian Factor-Augmented Vector Autoregressive model (FAVAR) to incorporate an identification scheme based on an exogenous variable approach. A Gibbs sampling algorithm is provided to estimate the posterior distributions of the models parameters. I estimate the effects of a monetary policy shock in the United States using the proposed algorithm, and find that an increase in the Federal Fund Rate has contractionary effects on both the real and financial sides of the economy. Furthermore, the paper suggests that data-rich models play an important role in mitigating price and real economic puzzles in the estimated impulse responses as well as the discrepancies among the impulse responses obtained with different monetary policy instruments.
Subjects: 
information sufficiency
factor-augmented VARs
instrumental variables
monetary policy
structural VARs
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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