Do SVARs with sign restrictions not identify unconventional monetary policy shocks ?

Jef Boeckx (), Maarten Dossche, Alessandro Galesi, Boris Hofmann and Gert Peersman ()

No 372, Working Paper Research from National Bank of Belgium

Abstract: A growing empirical literature has shown, based on structural vector autoregressions (SVARs) identified through sign restrictions, that unconventional monetary policies implemented after the outbreak of the Great Financial Crisis (GFC) had expansionary macroeconomic effects. In a recent paper, Elbourne and Ji (2019) conclude that these studies fail to identify true unconventional monetary policy shocks in the euro area. In this note, we show that their findings are actually fully consistent with a successful identification of unconventional monetary policy shocks by the earlier studies and that their approach does not serve the purpose of evaluating identification strategies of SVARs.

Keywords: Non-standard measures; structural VAR; identification; ECB. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C32 E52 E58 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 29 pages
Date: 2019-06
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