A Structural Matrix Autoregression Framework for International Spillovers

Ignacio Moreira Lara, Jan Pr\"user and Christoph Hanck

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Abstract: Understanding how macroeconomic shocks propagate across countries requires structural models that can jointly identify country-specific shocks and their international transmission. Yet extending structural vector autoregressions (SVARs) to large multi-country systems is challenging due to rapidly increasing dimensionality, computational costs, and the proliferation of identifying restrictions. This paper develops a Bayesian Structural Matrix Autoregression (BSMAR) framework that exploits the natural matrix structure of international macroeconomic data. By separating dependence across economic variables from dependence across countries, the framework provides a parsimonious representation that substantially reduces the dimensionality of large structural systems. We develop a Bayesian sampling algorithm for posterior inference that accommodates zero, sign, and ranking (magnitude) restrictions, allowing established SVAR identification schemes to be combined with a novel approach to identifying contemporaneous international spillovers. Applying the model to quarterly data for 15 economies, we find substantial heterogeneity in international shock transmission, with demand shocks playing a more prominent role than supply shocks in generating cross-country spillovers.

Date: 2026-07
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