The Effects of Monetary Policy Shocks in Bangladesh: A Bayesian Structural VAR Approach

Rokon Bhuiyan

International Economic Journal, 2012, vol. 26, issue 2, 301-316

Abstract: This paper develops a Bayesian structural VAR model for Bangladesh in a small-open-economy context in order to estimate the effects of monetary policy shocks on various macroeconomic variables. To increase the precision of the model identification, we allow the macroeconomic variables of the model to interact simultaneously with each other. This paper finds that the liquidity effect and the exchange-rate effect of the monetary policy shock are realized immediately, while industrial production responds with a lag of over half a year, and the inflation rate responds with a lag of more than one year. I also find that monetary policy shocks are not the dominant source of industrial production fluctuations in Bangladesh.

Date: 2012
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