Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/224529 
Year of Publication: 
2020
Series/Report no.: 
Beiträge zur Jahrestagung des Vereins für Socialpolitik 2020: Gender Economics
Publisher: 
ZBW - Leibniz Information Centre for Economics, Kiel, Hamburg
Abstract: 
We study the multifaceted effects and persistence of trade policy shocks on financial markets in a structural vector autoregression. The model is identified via event day heteroskedasticity. We find that restrictive US trade policy shocks affect US and international stock prices heterogeneously, but generally negatively overall, increasing market uncertainty, lowering interest rates, and leading to an appreciation of the US-Dollar. The effects are significant for several weeks or quarters. These effects reveal elements of both relative price shocks and uncertainty shocks of which the latter may be more important. Chinese trade policy shocks against the US further hurt US stocks.
Subjects: 
Trade policy shock
structural VAR
stock prices
exchange rates
interest rates
heteroskedasticity
JEL: 
F13
F51
G10
Document Type: 
Conference Paper

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