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Comovements and heterogeneity in the Comovements and heterogeneity in the dynamic factor model

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dc.creator Eickmeier, Sandra
dc.date 2006
dc.date.accessioned 2013-10-16T07:06:10Z
dc.date.available 2013-10-16T07:06:10Z
dc.date.issued 2013-10-16
dc.identifier http://hdl.handle.net/10419/19660
dc.identifier ppn:518481581
dc.identifier RePEc:zbw:bubdp1:4793
dc.identifier.uri http://koha.mediu.edu.my:8181/xmlui/handle/10419/19660
dc.description This paper seeks to assess comovements and heterogeneity in the euro area by fitting a nonstationary dynamic factor model (Bai and Ng, 2004), augmented with a structural factor setup (Forni and Reichlin, 1998), to a large set of euro-area macroeconomic variables observed between 1982 and 2003. This framework allows us to estimate stationary and non-stationary common factors and idiosyncratic components, to identify the structural shocks behind the common factors and assess their transmission to individual EMU countries. Our most important findings are the following. EMU countries share five common trends. However, the source of non-stationarity of individual countries' key macroeconomic variables is not only pervasive. Instead, most countries' output and inflation are also affected by long-lasting idiosyncratic shocks. Unweighted dispersion is primarily due to idiosyncratic shocks rather than the asymmetric spread of common shocks. However, the latter seems to be the main driving force of weighted dispersion of output at the end of the 1980s and the beginning of the 1990s and again from 1999 on and of inflation in the mid-1980s and the mid-1990s. To examine the transmission of common shocks to individual EMU countries in more detail, we identify five structural common shocks, namely two euro-area supply shocks, one euro-area demand shock, one common monetary policy shock and a US shock. We find similar output and inflation responses across countries (with some exceptions), and similarity generally increases with the horizon.
dc.language eng
dc.relation Discussion paper Series 1 / Volkswirtschaftliches Forschungszentrum der Deutschen Bundesbank 2006,31
dc.rights http://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen
dc.subject C3
dc.subject E32
dc.subject F00
dc.subject E5
dc.subject ddc:330
dc.subject Dynamic factor models
dc.subject sign restrictions
dc.subject common trends
dc.subject common cycles
dc.subject international business cycles
dc.subject EMU
dc.subject output and inflation differentials
dc.subject Konjunkturzusammenhang
dc.subject Inflationsübertragung
dc.subject Entwicklungskonvergenz
dc.subject Faktorenanalyse
dc.subject Dynamisches Modell
dc.subject Europäische Wirtschafts- und Währungsunion
dc.subject Schätzung
dc.subject EU-Staaten
dc.title Comovements and heterogeneity in the Comovements and heterogeneity in the dynamic factor model
dc.type doc-type:workingPaper
dc.coverage 1982-2003


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