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Erscheinungsjahr: 
2021
Schriftenreihe/Nr.: 
ECB Working Paper No. 2534
Verlag: 
European Central Bank (ECB), Frankfurt a. M.
Zusammenfassung: 
We address the identification of low-frequency macroeconomic shocks, such as technology, in Structural Vector Autoregressions. Whilst identification issues with long-run restrictions are well documented, we demonstrate that the recent attempt to overcome said issues using the Max-Share approach of Francis et al. (2014) and Barsky and Sims (2011) has its own shortcomings, primarily that they are vulnerable to bias from confounding non-technology shocks, although less so than long-run specifications. We offer a new spectral methodology to improve empirical identification. This new preferred methodology offers equivalent or improved identification in a wide range of data generating processes and when applied to US data. Our findings on the bias generated by confounding shocks also importantly extends to the identification of dominant business-cycle shocks, which will be a combination of shocks rather than a single structural driver. This can result in a mis-characterization of the business cycle anatomy.
Schlagwörter: 
Identification
Long-Horizon and Business-Cycle Shocks
Confounding Shocks
JEL: 
C11
C30
E32
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ISBN: 
978-92-899-4534-9
Dokumentart: 
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