The low-frequency impact of daily monetary policy shocks
Neville Francis,
Eric Ghysels () and
Michael Owyang
No 2011-009, Working Papers from Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
Abstract:
With rare exception, studies of monetary policy tend to neglect the timing of the innovations to the monetary policy instrument. Models which do take timing seriously are often difficult to compare to standard VAR models of monetary policy because of the differences in the frequency that they use. We propose an alternative model using MIDAS regressions which nests both ideas: Accurate (daily) timing of innovations to the monetary policy instrument are embedded in a monthly frequency VAR to determine the macroeconomic effects of high frequency changes to policy. We find that taking into account the timing of the shocks is important and can alleviate some of the puzzles in standard monthly VARs [e.g., the price puzzle]. We find that policy shocks are most important to variables thought of as being heavily expectations-oriented and that, contrary to some VAR studies, the effects of FOMC shocks on real variables are small.>
Keywords: Monetary policy; Econometric models; Prices (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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