Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/19479 
Year of Publication: 
2004
Series/Report no.: 
Discussion Paper Series 1 No. 2004,12
Publisher: 
Deutsche Bundesbank, Frankfurt a. M.
Abstract: 
This paper investigates the transmission of US macroeconomic shocks to Germany by employing a large-dimensional structural dynamic factor model. This framework allows us to investigate many transmission channels simultaneously, including 'new' channels like stock markets, foreign direct investment, bank lending and the confidence channel. We find that US shocks affect the US and Germany largely symmetrically. Trade and monetary policy reactions to strong price effects seem to be most relevant; financial markets may have become more important over time. The speed of transmission does not seem to have increased. Negative domestic influences apparently more than compensated positive US influences in the German economy between 1995 and 2000, but the US recession in 2001 seemed mainly responsible for the German slump.
Subjects: 
International business cycles
international transmission channels
dynamic factor models
structural VAR techniques
JEL: 
F41
C13
C32
F02
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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