Tese (doutorado)—Universidade de Brasília, Faculdade de Economia, Administração e Contabilidade, Programa de Pós-Graduação, 2015. / Submitted by Fernanda Percia França (fernandafranca@bce.unb.br) on 2015-12-21T12:31:38Z No. of bitstreams: 1 2015_MárcioFranciscodaSilva.pdf: 7139934 bytes, checksum: ac253c51aadacb24ce372e5f5ae78f54 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Raquel Viana(raquelviana@bce.unb.br) on 2016-01-12T15:22:12Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 2015_MárcioFranciscodaSilva.pdf: 7139934 bytes, checksum: ac253c51aadacb24ce372e5f5ae78f54 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-01-12T15:22:12Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 2015_MárcioFranciscodaSilva.pdf: 7139934 bytes, checksum: ac253c51aadacb24ce372e5f5ae78f54 (MD5) / Neste trabalho foram analisadas duas extensões do modelo proposto por (2010). Na primeira versão são introduzidos um setor produtor de imóveis e uma modalidade de empréstimos às famílias impacientes com base no salário esperado. Estas mudanças têm como objetivo mimetizar duas características importantes da economia brasileira: a importância do setor de construção civil e do empréstimo consignado para o ciclo de negócios brasileiro. Na segunda versão do modelo foram incluidas as transações da economia doméstica com o exterior nos setores de bens (importando insumos e exportando bens finais) e financeiro (captação de poupança externa por meio dos bancos). Isto possibilita analisar a importância dos choques externos -a- os choques originados do setor financeiro para a economia brasileira. / This study analyzes two extensions of the model proposed by (2010). In the first one, a housing producing sector was introduced. In addition to that a different form of loans to impatient households is considered that is based on the expected wage of households. When the family takes new loans, her ability of borrowing depends on their expected wage. These changes are intended to mimic two important characteristics of the Brazilian economy: the role of housing sector in the business cycle and the supply of payroll loans. In the second extension of the model, the environment was changed to a small open economy where the transactions of goods (importing raw materials and exporting finished goods) and financial sector (foreign savings funding through banks) to the rest of the world is taken into account. This makes it possible to analyze the importance of external shocks -- the shocks arising from the financial sector to the Brazilian economy.

Submitted by Paulo Fernando Nericke Motula (pnericke@fgvmail.br) on 2013-06-29T15:45:20Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Dissertacao - Paulo Motula.pdf: 1492951 bytes, checksum: d60fce8c6165733b9666076aef7e2a75 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Janete de Oliveira Feitosa (janete.feitosa@fgv.br) on 2013-07-03T13:29:49Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 Dissertacao - Paulo Motula.pdf: 1492951 bytes, checksum: d60fce8c6165733b9666076aef7e2a75 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Marcia Bacha (marcia.bacha@fgv.br) on 2013-07-09T19:35:20Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 Dissertacao - Paulo Motula.pdf: 1492951 bytes, checksum: d60fce8c6165733b9666076aef7e2a75 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2013-07-09T19:40:59Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Dissertacao - Paulo Motula.pdf: 1492951 bytes, checksum: d60fce8c6165733b9666076aef7e2a75 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013-06-18 / We investigate the small sample properties and robustness of the parameter estimates of DSGE models. Our test ground is the Smets and Wouters (2007)'s model and the estimation procedures we evaluate are the Simulated Method of Moments (SMM) and Maximum Likelihood (ML). We look at the empirical distributions of the parameter estimates and their implications for impulse-response and variance decomposition in the cases of correct specification and two types of misspecification. Our results indicate an overall poor performance of SMM and some patterns of bias in impulse-response and variance decomposition for ML under the types of misspecification studied. / Neste trabalho investigamos as propriedades em pequena amostra e a robustez das estimativas dos parâmetros de modelos DSGE. Tomamos o modelo de Smets and Wouters (2007) como base e avaliamos a performance de dois procedimentos de estimação: Método dos Momentos Simulados (MMS) e Máxima Verossimilhança (MV). Examinamos a distribuição empírica das estimativas dos parâmetros e sua implicação para as análises de impulso-resposta e decomposição de variância nos casos de especificação correta e má especificação. Nossos resultados apontam para um desempenho ruim de MMS e alguns padrões de viés nas análises de impulso-resposta e decomposição de variância com estimativas de MV nos casos de má especificação considerados.

Submitted by isabela.moljf@hotmail.com (isabela.moljf@hotmail.com) on 2017-07-04T12:31:19Z No. of bitstreams: 1 lucianirodriguespaiva.pdf: 1708723 bytes, checksum: 6cb4ce038cd3c7ff8ca7f499d9facdb3 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Adriana Oliveira (adriana.oliveira@ufjf.edu.br) on 2017-08-08T14:47:17Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 lucianirodriguespaiva.pdf: 1708723 bytes, checksum: 6cb4ce038cd3c7ff8ca7f499d9facdb3 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-08-08T14:47:17Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 lucianirodriguespaiva.pdf: 1708723 bytes, checksum: 6cb4ce038cd3c7ff8ca7f499d9facdb3 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017-06-14 / Este trabalho tem como objetivo estudar os efeitos da transparência econômica e da clareza do Banco Central do Brasil (BCB) sobre a volatilidade das taxas de juros de longo prazo. Para tal, incluiu-se a estrutura a termo da taxa de juros em um modelo novo-keynesiano de economia aberta e com governo. Os resultados dos modelos com clareza e com transparência do BCB enfatizam a queda da volatilidade destas taxas, uma vez que a autoridade monetária publicou informações sobre o futuro da taxa básica de juros. Além disso, nos modelos com clareza do BCB, os choques de política monetária têm efeitos mais suaves e duradouros sobre os juros futuros, o que indica dominância da ferramenta forward guidance (clareza do BCB) na determinação destas taxas. / This paper aims to study the effects of economic transparency and the clarity of the Central Bank of Brazil on the volatility of long - term interest rates. For this purpose, the term structure of the interest rate was included in a new-keynesian model of open economy and with government. The results of the models with clarity and transparent BCB emphasize the fall in the volatility of these rates, since the monetary authority published information on the future of the basic interest rate. Moreover, in models with clarity, monetary policy shocks have smoother and longer-term effects on future interest rates, indicating the dominance of the forward guidance (BCB’s clarity) tool in determining these rates.

We present a two-country New Open Economy Macro model of the Austrian economy within the European Union's Economic & Monetary Union (EMU). The model includes both nominal and real frictions that have proven to be important in matching business cycle facts, and that allows for an investigation of the effects and 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 using Bayesian methods on quarterly data covering the period of 1976:Q1- 2005:Q1. In addition to the assessment of the relative importance of various shocks, the model also allows to investigate effects of the monetary regime switch with the final 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 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 Area shocks to Austria's business cycle fluctuations has increased significantly. (author´s abstract) / Series: EI Working Papers / Europainstitut

After the recent financial crisis of 2007, a connection between monetary policy and financial stability has started to be thoroughly investigated. One of the particular areas of this research field deals with the role of various financial variables in the monetary policy rules. The main purpose of this research is to find whether direct incorporation of the financial variables in the monetary policy rule can bring macroeconomic benefits in terms of lower volatility of inflation and output. So far, the main emphasis of the research has been placed on the investigation of the augmented Taylor rules in the context of a closed economy. This thesis sheds light on the performance of the augmented Taylor rules in a small open economy. For this purpose, a New Keynesian DSGE model with two types of financial frictions is constructed. The model is calibrated for the Czech Republic. The thesis provides four conclusions. First, incorporation of the financial variables (asset prices and the volume of credit) in the monetary policy rule is beneficial for macroeconomic stabilization in terms of lower implied volatilities of inflation and output. Second, the usefulness of the augmented monetary policy rule is the most apparent in case of the shock originating abroad. Third, there is a strong link between the financial and the...

Thesis advisor: Fabio Ghironi / This dissertation consists of three essays on macroeconomics with frictions and uncertainty shocks. The first essay is "Collateral Constrained Workers' Unemployment". Financial market and labor market are closely interconnected each other in the sense that unemployed workers have difficulty not only in borrowing new loan but also in repaying outstanding loan. In addition, if unemployment entails loss from default and no new loan, credit constrained workers will accept lower wage to avoid the loss from losing job. In this paper, we try to investigate the role of the interaction between financial market and labor market over the business cycle. To do that, we assume credit constrained workers can borrow against their houses and repay outstanding loans only when they are employed. We also introduce labor search and matching framework into our model to consider unemployment and wage bargaining process explicitly. With this setup, we find that adverse housing preference shock leads to substantial negative impact on labor market by reducing the benefit from maintaining job. As a result, high unemployment significantly amplifies the business cycle by reducing supply of loan and increasing default. This result would be helpful to understand recent "Great Recession" which was originated from the collapse of housing market and accompanied by high unemployment and default rate. The second essay is "International Financial Business Cycles". Recent international macroeconomics literature on global imbalances explains the U.S. persistent current account deficit and emerging countries' surplus, i.e., the U.S. is the borrower. Little research has been done on the banking-sector level, where U.S. banks are lenders to banks in emerging countries. We build a two country framework where banks are explicitly modeled to investigate how lending in the banking sector can affect the international macroeconomy during the recent crisis. In steady state, banks in the developing country borrows from the U.S. banks. When the borrowers in the U.S. pay back less than contractually agreed and damage the balance sheet of the U.S. banks, with the presence of bank capital requirement constraint, U.S. banks raise lending rates and decrease the loans made to U.S. borrowers as well as banks in the developing country. The results are a sharp increase in the lending spread, a reduction in output and a depreciation in the real exchange rate of the developing country. They are the experience of many emerging Asian markets following the U.S. financial crisis starting in late 2007. Another feature of our model captures an empirical fact, documented by Devereux and Yetman (2010), that across different economies, countries with lower financial rating can suffer more when the lending country deleverages. The third essay is "Uncertainty, Collateral Constrained Borrowers, and Business Cycle". Standard RBC model fails to generate the co-movement of key macro variables under uncertainty shock because precautionary saving motive decreases consumption but increases investment and labor. To fill this gap, we build a DSGE model with collateral constrained borrowers who can borrow against housing and capital. In the model with modest risk aversion, we can generate the desired co-movement of key macro variables under uncertainty shock and the co-movement comes from the collateral constraint channel through drop in housing price. Under uncertainty shock, highly indebted borrowers sell collaterals to avoid uncertainty in future consumption. As a result, housing price goes down and it makes credit crunch to borrowers through collateral constraint channel. The negative effect of uncertainty shock is strengthened in the economy with higher indebted borrowers. / Thesis (PhD) — Boston College, 2012. / Submitted to: Boston College. Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. / Discipline: Economics.

Existing studies which analyze a central banks' behaviour in formulating monetary policy, are mostly concentrated on the experience of developed economies. However, developing economies face a different institutional structure, as well as a different set of constraints and shocks, hence, it would be interesting to analyze how a central bank under this different economic environment performs its monetary policy mandate. This thesis looks at the behaviour of Bank Negara Malaysia (The Central Bank of Malaysia) in formulating monetary policy in Malaysia during the period 1975-2005. ¶ There are four major aspects of Bank Negara Malaysia's (BNM) policy behaviour that are examined in this thesis. Firstly, with regard to its policy reaction function - does BNM set interest rates according to some form of policy rule or purely on a discretionary manner? After identifying the systematic component of its policy action, we try to establish BNM's policy objectives and preferences. This will help in understanding the rationale behind its policy action. The third aspect is whether BNM's policy behaviour changes over time. Lastly, with the use of an estimated Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium (DSGE) model, we conduct some policy experiments to observe the possible impact on the Malaysia's economic outcomes were BNM to behave differently to what we envisaged its policy behaviour has been.

This Thesis is composed by three independent papers that investigate central debates in empirical macroeconomic modeling. Chapter 1, entitled “A Model for Real-Time Data Assessment with an Application to GDP Growth Rates”, provides a model for the data revisions of macroeconomic variables that distinguishes between rational expectation updates and noise corrections. Thus, the model encompasses the two polar views regarding the publication process of statistical agencies: noise versus news. Most of the studies previous studies that analyze data revisions are based on the classical noise and news regression approach introduced by Mankiew, Runkle and Shapiro (1984). The problem is that the statistical tests available do not formulate both extreme hypotheses as collectively exhaustive, as recognized by Aruoba (2008). That is, it would be possible to reject or accept both of them simultaneously. In turn, the model for the DPP presented here allows for the simultaneous presence of both noise and news. While the “regression approach” followed by Faust et al. (2005), along the lines of Mankiew et al. (1984), identifies noise in the preliminary figures, it is not possible for them to quantify it, as done by our model. The second and third chapters acknowledge the possibility that macroeconomic data is measured with errors, but the approach followed to model the missmeasurement is extremely stylized and does not capture the complexity of the revision process that we describe in the first chapter. Chapter 2, entitled “Revisiting the Success of the RBC model”, proposes the use of dynamic factor models as an alternative to the VAR based tools for the empirical validation of dynamic stochastic general equilibrium (DSGE) theories. Along the lines of Giannone et al. (2006), we use the state-space parameterisation of the factor models proposed by Forni et al. (2007) as a competitive benchmark that is able to capture weak statistical restrictions that DSGE models impose on the data. Our empirical illustration compares the out-of-sample forecasting performance of a simple RBC model augmented with a serially correlated noise component against several specifications belonging to classes of dynamic factor and VAR models. Although the performance of the RBC model is comparable to that of the reduced form models, a formal test of predictive accuracy reveals that the weak restrictions are more useful at forecasting than the strong behavioral assumptions imposed by the microfoundations in the model economy. The last chapter, “What are Shocks Capturing in DSGE modeling”, contributes to current debates on the use and interpretation of larger DSGE models. Recent tendency in academic work and at central banks is to develop and estimate large DSGE models for policy analysis and forecasting. These models typically have many shocks (e.g. Smets and Wouters, 2003 and Adolfson, Laseen, Linde and Villani, 2005). On the other hand, empirical studies point out that few large shocks are sufficient to capture the covariance structure of macro data (Giannone, Reichlin and Sala, 2005, Uhlig, 2004). In this Chapter, we propose to reconcile both views by considering an alternative DSGE estimation approach which models explicitly the statistical agency along the lines of Sargent (1989). This enables us to distinguish whether the exogenous shocks in DSGE modeling are structural or instead serve the purpose of fitting the data in presence of misspecification and measurement problems. When applied to the original Smets and Wouters (2007) model, we find that the explanatory power of the structural shocks decreases at high frequencies. This allows us to back out a smoother measure of the natural output gap than that resulting from the original specification.

Thèse (Ph. D.)--Université Laval, 2007. / Bibliogr.: f. 228-238. Publié aussi en version électronique dans la Collection Mémoires et thèses électroniques.

Esta tese é composta por três ensaios sobre a estimação bayesiana de modelos DSGE com fricções financeiras para o Brasil. O primeiro ensaio tem o objetivo de analisar como a incorporação de intermediários financeiros num modelo DSGE influenciam na análise do ciclo econômico, bem como uma política de crédito pode ser utilizada para mitigar os choques no mercado de crédito sobre a atividade. O governo brasileiro expandiu o crédito na economia através das instituições financeiras públicas tendo como custo o aumento da dívida pública. Para isso, foi estimado um modelo inspirado em Gertler e Karadi (2011) para avaliar o comportamento da economia brasileira sob a influência de uma política de crédito. Política de crédito mostrou-se efetiva para mitigar os efeitos recessivos de uma crise financeira que atinja a cotação dos ativos privados ou o patrimônio das instituições financeiras. Contudo, a política monetária tradicional se mostrou mais eficiente para a estabilização da inflação em momentos de normalidade. O segundo ensaio consiste na estimação de um modelo DSGE-VAR para a economia brasileira. A parte DSGE consiste em uma economia pequena, aberta e com fricções financeiras na linha de Gertler, Gilchrist e Natalucci (2007). A estimação do modelo indicou que flexibilização do espaço paramétrico possibilitado pelo modelo DSGE-VAR proporcionou ganhos em relação ao ajuste aos dados em relação a modelos alternativos. O exercício também obteve indicações de que os choques externos apresentam impactos significativos no patrimônio e no endividamento das firmas domésticas. Esse resultado fortalece a evidência de que um canal importante de transmissão dos movimentos da economia mundial para a o Brasil ocorre através das firmas. Por fim, no terceiro ensaio tem como foco a transmissão dos choques no spread de crédito bancário para as demais variáveis da economia e suas implicações para a condução da política monetária no brasil. Para isso, foi estimado um modelo DSGE com fricções financeiras para a economia brasileira. O modelo é baseado em Cúrdia e Woodford (2010), que propuseram uma extensão do modelo de Woodford (2003) para incorporar a existência de um diferencial entre a taxa de juros disponíveis aos poupadores e tomadores de empréstimos, que pode variar por razões tanto endógenas quanto exógenos. Nessa economia, a política monetária pode responder não somente às variações na taxa de inflação e hiato do produto através de uma regra simples, como também por meio de uma regra ajustada pelo spread de crédito da economia. Os resultados mostram que a inclusão do spread de crédito no modelo Novo Keynesiano não altera significativamente as conclusões dos modelos DSGE em respostas a perturbações exógenas tradicionais, como choques na taxa de juros, na produtividade da economia e no dispêndio público. Porém, nos eventos que ocasionam a deterioração da intermediação financeira, por meio de choques exógenos sobre o spread de crédito, o impacto sobre o ciclo econômico foi significativo e a adoção de uma regra de política monetária ajustada pelo spread pode conseguir estabilizar a economia mais rapidamente do que uma regra tradicional. / The present thesis is a collection of three essays on Bayesian estimation of DSGE models with financial frictions in the Brazilian economy. The first essay intends to investigate how the incorporation of financial intermediaries in a DSGE model influences the analysis of the economic cycle, as well as how the credit policy can be employed to mitigate the effects of shocks in the credit market on the economic activity. The Brazilian government expanded the credit in the economy through public financial institutions, which resulted in an increase of public debt. it estimated a model inspired by Gertler and Karadi (2011) to evaluate the performance of the Brazilian economy under the influence of a credit policy. Credit policy was effective to mitigate the recessionary effects of a financial crisis that affects the valuation of private assets and the net worth of financial institutions. However, the traditional monetary policy was more efficient for the stabilization of inflation in times of normality. The second essay consist of a DSGE-VAR model for the Brazilian economy. The DSGE model was estimated for a small, open economy with financial frictions, in line with Gertler, Gilchrist and Natalucci (2007). The results indicates that the estimation of DSGE-VAR provides an advantage for the data fitting in comparison to alternative models. In addition, the results indicate that external shocks have significant impacts in the equity and debt of domestic firms. This result strengthens (supports) the evidence that an important channel of transmission of the movements of the world economy for the Brazil takes place through productive sector. The third essay analyze the transmission of shocks in the banking credit spread for the other variables of the economy and its implications for the conduct of monetary policy in Brazil. We do so by estimating a DSGE model with financial frictions for the Brazilian economy. The model is based on Cúrdia and Woodford (2010), who proposed an extension of the model Woodford (2003) to incorporate the existence of a differential between the interest rates available to savers and borrowers, which can vary by both endogenous and exogenous reasons. In this model, monetary policy can respond not only to changes in the inflation rate and output gap through a simple rule, but also through a rule set by the credit spread of the economy. The results show that the inclusion of credit spread in the New Keynesian model does not significantly changes the conclusions of DSGE models in traditional responses to exogenous shocks, such as shocks in the interest rate, in the productivity of the economy and in public spending. However, in the events that cause the deterioration of financial intermediation through exogenous shocks on the credit spread, the impact on the business cycle was significant and the adoption of a monetary policy rule set by the spread can achieve a faster stabilization of the economy than a traditional rule.