What caused the early millennium slowdown? Evidence based on vector autoregressions

Gert Peersman ()

Working Papers of Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Ghent University, Belgium from Ghent University, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration

Abstract: This paper uses a simple VAR for the industrialised world (aggregate of 17 countries), the US and the Euro area to analyse the underlying shocks of the recent slowdown, i.e. supply, demand, monetary policy and oil price shocks. The results of two identification strategies are compared. One is based on traditional zero restrictions and, as an alternative, an identification scheme based on more recent sign restrictions is proposed. The main conclusion is that the recent slowdown is caused by a combination of several shocks: A negative aggregate supply and aggregate spending shock, the increase of oil prices in 1999, and restrictive monetary policy in 2000. These shocks are more pronounced in the US than the Euro area. The results are somewhat different depending on the identification strategy. It is illustrated that traditional zero restrictions can have an influence on the estimated impact of certain shocks.

Keywords: business cycles; vector autoregressions (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C32 E32 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 51 pages
Date: 2004-03
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Journal Article: What caused the early millennium slowdown? Evidence based on vector autoregressions (2005)
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Working Paper: What Caused the Early Millennium Slowdown? Evidence Based on Vector Autoregressions (2003)
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