Holding the economy by the tail: analysis of short- and long-run macroeconomic risks

Michal Franta and Jan Libich

Empirical Economics, 2024, vol. 66, issue 4, No 2, 1443-1489

Abstract: Abstract We put forward a macro-financial empirical modeling framework that can examine the tails of distributions of macroeconomic variables and the implied risks. It does so without quantile regression, also allowing for non-normal distributions. The framework offers a number of relevant insights into higher moments of the US output growth distribution, as well as the effects of monetary policy and financial (risk premia) shocks on downside macroeconomic risk. This is not only from the short-run perspective but also from the long-run perspective, which has remained largely unexamined in the existing Macro-at-Risk literature. In particular, we estimate the short-run (conditional) and long-run US output growth distributions and study their evolution. The short-run analysis finds that monetary policy and financial shocks render the conditional output growth distribution asymmetric. As such, they affect downside risk over and above their impact on the conditional mean that policymakers routinely focus on. The long-run analysis indicates that US output growth left-tail risk showed a general downward trend in the two decades preceding the Global Financial Crisis (GFC), but this trend got reversed post-2008. Our examination strongly points to the adopted unconventional monetary policy framework featuring quantitative easing as a potential source of elevated long-run downside tail risk in the post-GFC period.

Keywords: Growth-at-risk; Threshold VAR; Non-normal distribution; US output growth; Macroeconomic policy; Macro-financial modeling (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C53 C54 E32 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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