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来源类型 | Discussion paper |
规范类型 | 论文 |
来源ID | DP11583 |
DP11583 Vulnerable Growth | |
Tobias Adrian; Nina Boyarchenko; Domenico Giannone | |
发表日期 | 2016-10-19 |
出版年 | 2016 |
语种 | 英语 |
摘要 | We study the conditional distribution of GDP growth as a function of economic and financial conditions. Deteriorating financial conditions are associated with an increase in conditional volatility and a decline in the conditional mean of GDP growth leading to a highly skewed distribution, with the lower quantiles of GDP growth exhibiting strong variation as a function of financial conditions and the upper quantiles stable over time. While measures of financial conditions significantly forecast downside vulnerability, measures of economic conditions have significant predictive power only for the median of the distribution. These findings are robust both in- and out-of-sample and to including different measures of financial conditions. We quantify GDP vulnerability as relative entropy between the empirical conditional and unconditional distribution. We show that this measure of vulnerability is highly asymmetric: the contribution to the total relative entropy of the probability mass below the median of the conditional distribution is larger and more volatile than the contribution of the probability mass above the median. The asymmetric response of the distribution of GDP growth to financial and economic conditions -- with adverse financial conditions increasing downside vulnerability of growth but not the median forecast -- is challenging for standard models of the macroeconomy. We argue that the inclusion of a financial sector is crucial for generating the observed dynamics of growth vulnerability. |
主题 | Financial Economics ; Monetary Economics and Fluctuations |
URL | https://cepr.org/publications/dp11583 |
来源智库 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (United Kingdom) |
资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/540396 |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Tobias Adrian,Nina Boyarchenko,Domenico Giannone. DP11583 Vulnerable Growth. 2016. |
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