Lucia Alessi
;
Mark Kerssenfischer

the response of asset prices to monetary policy shocks: stronger than thought (replication data)

Standard macroeconomic theory predicts rapid responses of asset prices to monetary policy shocks. Small-scale vector autoregressions (VARs), however, often find sluggish and insignificant impact effects. Using the same high-frequency instrument to identify monetary policy shocks, we show that a large-scale dynamic factor model finds overall stronger and quicker asset price reactions compared to a benchmark VAR, both on euro area and US data. Our results suggest that incorporating a sufficiently large information set is crucial to estimate monetary policy effects.

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Alessi, Lucia; Kerssenfischer, Mark (2019): The response of asset prices to monetary policy shocks: Stronger than thought (replication data). Version: 1. Journal of Applied Econometrics. Dataset. http://dx.doi.org/10.15456/jae.2022327.0709962357