S. Miranda-Agrippino, G. Ricco - The Transmission of Monetary Policy Shocks
Final paper and replica codes published on AEJ:macro (Forthcoming) [Link]
Monetary Policy and Info IVs extended to 2015:12. [GitHub Repository] [Paper]
Last version of the Working Paper [PDF] [Online Appendix]
Commonly used instruments for the identification of monetary policy disturbances are likely to combine the true policy shock with information about the state of the economy due to the information disclosed through the policy action. We show that this signalling effect of monetary policy can give rise to the empirical puzzles reported in the literature, and propose a new high-frequency instrument for monetary policy shocks that accounts for informational rigidities. We find that a monetary tightening is unequivocally contractionary, with deterioration of domestic demand, labor and credit market conditions, as well as of asset prices and agents' expectations.