Identifying VARS based on high frequency futures data |
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Authors: | Jon Faust Jonathan H Wright |
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Institution: | a International Finance Division, Federal Reserve Board, Washington, DC 20551, USA b Monetary Affairs Division, Federal Reserve Board, Washington, DC 20551, USA c International Finance Division, Federal Reserve Board, Washington, DC 20551, USA |
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Abstract: | Using the prices of federal funds futures contracts, we measure the impact of the surprise component of Federal Reserve policy decisions on the expected future trajectory of interest rates. We show how this information can be used to identify the effects of a monetary policy shock in a standard VAR. This alternative approach to identification is quite different, and, we argue, more plausible, than the conventional identifying restrictions. We find that a usual recursive identification of the model is rejected, as is any identification that insists on a monetary policy shock having an exactly zero effect on prices contemporaneously. We nevertheless agree with the conclusion of much of the VAR literature that only a small fraction of the variance of output can be attributed to monetary policy shocks. |
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Keywords: | C32 E52 G13 |
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