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2013-02-27Diskussionspapier DOI: 10.18452/4451
The Real Consequences of Financial Stress
dc.contributor.authorMittnik, Stefan
dc.contributor.authorSemmler, Willi
dc.date.accessioned2017-06-16T00:48:39Z
dc.date.available2017-06-16T00:48:39Z
dc.date.created2013-03-18
dc.date.issued2013-02-27
dc.date.submitted2013-02-27
dc.identifier.issn1860-5664
dc.identifier.urihttp://edoc.hu-berlin.de/18452/5103
dc.description.abstractWe introduce a dynamic banking–macro model, which abstains from conventional mean– reversion assumptions and in which—similar to Brunnermeier and Sannikov (2010)—adverse asset–price movements and their impact on risk premia and credit spreads can induce instabilities in the banking sector. To assess such phenomena empirically, we employ a multi–regime vector autoregression (MRVAR) approach rather than conventional linear vector autoregressions. We conduct bivariate empirical analyses, using country–specific financial–stress indices and industrial production, for the U.S., the UK and the four large euro–area countries. Our MRVAR–based impulse–response studies demonstrate that, compared to a linear specification, response profiles are dependent on the current state of the economy as well as the sign and size of shocks. Previous multi–regime–based studies, focusing solely on the regime–dependence of responses, conclude that, during a high–stress period, stress–increasing shocks have more dramatic consequences for economic activity than during low stress. Conducting size–dependent response analysis, we find that this holds only for small shocks and reverses when shocks become sufficiently large to induce immediate regime switches. Our findings also suggest that, in states of high financial stress, large negative shocks to financial–stress have sizeable positive effects on real activity and support the idea of “unconventional” monetary policy measures in cases of extreme financial stress.eng
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherHumboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät
dc.rights.urihttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
dc.subjectmonetary policyeng
dc.subjectbanking–sector instabilityeng
dc.subjectfinancial stresseng
dc.subjectnonlinear VAReng
dc.subjectregime dependenceeng
dc.subject.ddc310 Sammlungen allgemeiner Statistiken
dc.subject.ddc330 Wirtschaft
dc.titleThe Real Consequences of Financial Stress
dc.typeworkingPaper
dc.identifier.urnurn:nbn:de:kobv:11-100207709
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.18452/4451
local.edoc.pages40
local.edoc.type-nameDiskussionspapier
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local.edoc.container-type-nameSchriftenreihe
local.edoc.container-year2013
dc.identifier.zdb2195055-6
bua.series.nameSonderforschungsbereich 649: Ökonomisches Risiko
bua.series.issuenumber2013,11

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