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ON THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN FINANCIAL INSTABILITY AND ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE: STRESSING THE BUSINESS OF NONLINEAR MODELING

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 June 2017

David Ubilava
David Ubilava*
Affiliation:
University of Sydney
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Address correspondence to: David Ubilava, School of Economics, The University of Sydney, Merewether Building, NSW 2006, Australia; e-mail: david.ubilava@sydney.edu.au.
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Abstract

The recent global financial crisis and the subsequent recession have revitalized the discussion on causal interactions between financial and economic sectors. In this study, I apply the financial stress and the national activity indices–respectively developed by Federal Reserve Banks of Kansas City and Chicago–to investigate the impact of financial uncertainty on an overall economic performance. I examine nonlinear dynamics in a vector smooth transition autoregressive framework, and illustrate regime-dependent asymmetries in the financial and economic indices using the generalized impulse-response functions. The results reveal more amplified dynamics during the stressed conditions. I further evaluate benefits of nonlinear modeling in an out-of-sample setting. The forecasting exercise brings out the important advantages that nonlinear modeling provides in the identification of the causal effect of financial instability on overall economic performance.

Keywords

Business CyclesFinancial StressForecast EvaluationVector STAR Models
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Macroeconomic Dynamics , Volume 23 , Issue 1 , January 2019 , pp. 80 - 100
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2017 

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Footnotes

This paper greatly benefited from many useful comments and suggestions from Edward Nelson, as well as those of two anonymous referees.

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