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Monetary policy, financial shocks and economic activity

Lookup NU author(s): Dr Tasos Evgenidis

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© 2022, The Author(s). This paper contributes to a fuller understanding of macroeconomic outcomes to financial market disturbances and the central bank’s role in financial stability. Our two major contributions are conceptual and econometric. Conceptually, we introduce phases of the business cycle and econometrically we employ Bayesian VARs. We document that a shock that increases credit to non-financial sector leads to a persistent decline in economic activity. In addition, we examine whether the behavior of financial variables is useful in signaling the 2007–2009 recession. The answer is positive as our BVAR generates early warning signals pointing to a sustained slowdown in growth. We propose that the expansion phase of the business cycle can be subdivided into an early and a late expansion. Based on this distinction, we show that if the Fed had raised the policy rate when the economy moved from the early to late expansion, it could have mitigated the severity of the 2007–2009 recession.


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Author(s): Evgenidis A, Malliaris AG

Publication type: Article

Publication status: Published

Journal: Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting

Year: 2022

Volume: 59

Pages: 429-456

Print publication date: 01/08/2022

Online publication date: 20/02/2022

Acceptance date: 03/02/2022

Date deposited: 17/03/2022

ISSN (print): 0924-865X

ISSN (electronic): 1573-7179

Publisher: Springer New York LLC

URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11156-022-01045-z

DOI: 10.1007/s11156-022-01045-z


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