The changing international transmission of financial shocks: evidence from a classical time-varying FAVAR

Sandra Eickmeier, Wolfgang Lemke and Massimiliano Marcellino

No 2011,05, Discussion Paper Series 1: Economic Studies from Deutsche Bundesbank

Abstract: 1971-2009. Financial shocks are defined as unexpected changes of a financial conditions index (FCI), recently developed by Hatzius et al. (2010), for the US. We use a time-varying factor-augmented VAR to model the FCI jointly with a large set of macroeconomic, financial and trade variables for nine major advanced countries. The main findings are as follows. First, positive US financial shocks have a considerable positive impact on growth in the nine countries, and vice versa for negative shocks. Second, the transmission to GDP growth in European countries has increased gradually since the 1980s, consistent with financial globalization. A more marked increase is detected in the early 1980s in the US itself, consistent with changes in the conduct of monetary policy. Third, the size of US financial shocks varies strongly over time, with the `global financial crisis shock' being very large by historical standards and explaining 30 percent of the variation in GDP growth on average over all countries in 2008-2009, compared to a little less than 10 percent over the 1971-2007 period. Finally, large collapses in house prices, exports and TFP are the main drivers of the strong worldwide propagation of US financial shocks during the crisis.

Keywords: international business cycles; international transmission channels; financial markets; globalization; financial conditions index; global financial crisis; timevarying FAVAR (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C3 C5 F1 F15 F4 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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Journal Article: The Changing International Transmission of Financial Shocks: Evidence from a Classical Time‐Varying FAVAR (2016)
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