Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/105702 
Year of Publication: 
2013
Series/Report no.: 
School of Economics Discussion Papers No. 1321
Publisher: 
University of Kent, School of Economics, Canterbury
Abstract: 
We study the exchange rate effects of monetary policy in a balanced macroeconometric two-country model for the US and UK. In contrast to the empirical literature on the 'delayed overshooting puzzle', which consistently treats the domestic and foreign countries unequally in themodelling process, we consider the full model feedback, allowing for a thorough analysis of the system dynamics. The consequential inevitable problem of model dimensionality is tackled in this paper by invoking the approach by Aoki (1981) commonly used in economic theory. Assuming country symmetry in the long-run allows to decouple the two-country macro dynamics of country averages and country differences such that the cointegration analysis can be applied to much smaller systems. Secondly the econometric modelling is general-to-specific, a graph-theoretic approach for the contemporaneous effects combined with an automatic general-to-specific model selection. The resulting parsimonious structural vector equilibrium correction model ensures highly significant impulse responses, revealing a delayed overshooting of the exchange rate in the case of a Bank of England monetary shock but suggests an instantaneous response to a Fed shock. Altogether the response is more pronounced in the former case.
Subjects: 
Two-country model
Cointegration
Structural VAR
Gets Model Selection
Monetary Policy
Exchange Rates
JEL: 
C22
C32
C50
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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