TY - JOUR
T1 - A time varying DSGE model with financial frictions
AU - Galvão, Ana Beatriz
AU - Giraitis, Liudas
AU - Kapetanios, George
AU - Petrova, Katerina
N1 - Galvão, Kapetanios and Petrova acknowledge fnancial support from the ESRC grant No ES/K010611/1.
PY - 2016/9/2
Y1 - 2016/9/2
N2 - We build a time varying DSGE model with financial frictions in order to evaluate changes in the responses of the macroeconomy to financial friction shocks. Using U.S. data, we find that the transmission of the financial friction shock to economic variables, such as output growth, has not changed in the last 30. years. The volatility of the financial friction shock, however, has changed, so that output responses to a one-standard deviation of the shock increase twofold in the 2007-2011 period in comparison with the 1985-2006 period. The time varying DSGE model with financial frictions improves the accuracy of forecasts of output growth and inflation during the tranquil period of 2000-2006, while delivering similar performance to the fixed coefficient DSGE model for the 2007-2012 period.
AB - We build a time varying DSGE model with financial frictions in order to evaluate changes in the responses of the macroeconomy to financial friction shocks. Using U.S. data, we find that the transmission of the financial friction shock to economic variables, such as output growth, has not changed in the last 30. years. The volatility of the financial friction shock, however, has changed, so that output responses to a one-standard deviation of the shock increase twofold in the 2007-2011 period in comparison with the 1985-2006 period. The time varying DSGE model with financial frictions improves the accuracy of forecasts of output growth and inflation during the tranquil period of 2000-2006, while delivering similar performance to the fixed coefficient DSGE model for the 2007-2012 period.
KW - Bayesian methods
KW - DSGE models
KW - Financial frictions
KW - Time varying parameters
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U2 - 10.1016/j.jempfin.2016.02.012
DO - 10.1016/j.jempfin.2016.02.012
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84964661519
SN - 0927-5398
VL - 38
SP - 690
EP - 716
JO - Journal of Empirical Finance
JF - Journal of Empirical Finance
IS - B
ER -