Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/81864 
Year of Publication: 
2013
Series/Report no.: 
Sveriges Riksbank Working Paper Series No. 267
Publisher: 
Sveriges Riksbank, Stockholm
Abstract: 
In this paper, I use high-frequency financial market estimates to identify the monetary policy shock in a non-recursive 133 variable FAVAR. All restrictions are imposed exclusively on impact, and only on financial market variables. Using the economy's underlying factor structure as the link between its real and financial sides, I find that high-frequency responses contain valuable information about the behavior of lower-frequency macro variables. Even though the proposed identification scheme does not fall back on any of the standard (FA)VAR identifying assumptions, it confirms the classical finding that monetary policy has strong and significant delayed effects on real activity. I also obtain stock market responses that are compatible with the efficient market hypothesis and find that consumer prices react very little to monetary policy.
Subjects: 
Monetary Policy
Impact Identification
FAVAR
Financial Markets
Efficient Market Hypothesis
JEL: 
E52
E58
E44
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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