An Estimated Two-Country DSGE Model of Austria and the Euro Area

Fritz Breuss, Katrin Rabitsch

Publikation: Wissenschaftliche FachzeitschriftOriginalbeitrag in FachzeitschriftBegutachtung

Abstract

We present a two-country New Open Economy Macro model of the Austrian economy within the European Union's Economic & Monetary Union (EMU). The <br/>model includes both nominal and real frictions that have proven to be important in matching business cycle facts, and that allow for an investigation of the effects and <br/>cross-country transmission of a number of structural shocks: shocks to technologies, shocks to preferences, cost-push type shocks and policy shocks. The model is estimated <br/>using Bayesian methods on quarterly data covering the period of 1976:Q2-2005:Q1. In addition to the assessment of the relative importance of various shocks, the model also <br/>allows to investigate effects of the monetary regime switch with the ¯nal stage of the EMU and investigates in how far this has altered macroeconomic transmission. We find that Austria's economy appears to react stronger to demand shocks, while in the rest <br/>of the Euro Area supply shocks have a stronger impact. Comparing the estimations on pre-EMU and EMU subsamples we find that the contribution of (rest of the) Euro <br/>Area shocks to Austria's business cycle fluctuations has increased signifcantly.
OriginalspracheEnglisch
Seiten (von - bis)123 - 158
FachzeitschriftEmpirica
Jahrgang36
Ausgabenummer1
DOIs
PublikationsstatusVeröffentlicht - 2009

Österreichische Systematik der Wissenschaftszweige (ÖFOS)

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