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JOURNAL OF MONEY CREDIT AND BANKING
Volume 50, Issue 7, Pages 1479-1505Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/jmcb.12491
Keywords
factor-augmented VAR models; smooth-transition VAR models; Gibbs variable selection; financial crisis
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Some financial stress events lead to macroeconomic downturns, while others appear to be isolated to financial markets. We identify financial stress regimes using a model that explicitly links financial variables to macro-economic outcomes. The stress regimes are identified using an unbalanced panel of financial variables with an embedded method for variable selection. Our identified stress regimes are associated with corporate credit tightening and with NBER recessions. An exogenous deterioration in our financial conditions index has strong negative effects in economic activity, and negative amplification effects on inflation in the stress regime. These results are obtained with a novel factor-augmented vector autoregressive model with smooth-transition regimes (FASTVAR).
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