Sima Siami-Namini Author
Subjects of specialization
Affiliation
Monetary policy shocks,Oil price shocks,Vector auto-regression (VAR),Factor augmented VAR (FAVAR)
Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics, Texas Tech University, USA
Sima Siami-Namini, Ph.D Student and Graduate Research Assistant Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics, Texas Tech University, USA. His references include: Walsh CE (2010) Monetary Theory and Policy, Cambridge Massachusetts, USA.
Research Article Open Access
Author(s): Sima Siami-Namini
One of the most important policy issues we face today is the impact of monetary policy shocks on the real economy. This issue is of relevance from an economic point of view, but it is also relevant from a political point of view. Also, the shock of oil price is one of the important factors that have affected the world economy since the 1970s. This article examines the effects of monetary policy shocks and oil price shocks on the real economy. I use the factor augmented vector autoregressive (FAVAR) approach and compare the results with the vector auto-regression (VAR) model by usi... view moreĀ»