Abstract
This paper investigates the contribution of sentiments shocks to US fluctuations in a Structural VAR setup with long, medium and short run restrictions. Sentiments shocks are identified as shocks orthogonal to fundamentals that accounts for most of the variance of confidence. We assess our identification procedure from simulation experiments and show that it performs pretty well. From actual data, we obtain that, contrary to news shocks on total factor productivity, sentiments shocks explain very little of quantities and prices. Sentiments shocks mostly appear as an idiosyncratic component of confidence. These results are robust to various perturbations of the benchmark model.
Keywords
Sentiment Shocks; News Shocks; SVARs; Identifying Restrictions;
JEL codes
- C32: Time-Series Models • Dynamic Quantile Regressions • Dynamic Treatment Effect Models • Diffusion Processes
- E32: Business Fluctuations • Cycles
Replaces
Patrick Fève, and Alain Guay, “Sentiments in SVARs”, TSE Working Paper, n. 16-656, May 2016.
Reference
Patrick Fève, and Alain Guay, “Sentiments in SVARs”, The Economic Journal, vol. 129, n. 618, February 2019, pp. 877–896.
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The Economic Journal, vol. 129, n. 618, February 2019, pp. 877–896