A history of aggregate demand and supply shocks for the United Kingdom, 1900 to 2016

被引:10
作者
Jump, Robert Calvert [1 ]
Kohler, Karsten [2 ]
机构
[1] Univ Greenwich, Inst Polit Econ Governance Finance & Accountabil, Old Royal Naval Coll, Pk Row, London SE10 9LS, England
[2] Univ Leeds, Dept Econ, Maurice Keyworth Bldg, Woodhouse, Leeds LS2 9JT, England
关键词
Aggregate demand shocks; Aggregate supply shocks; Sign restrictions; Vector autoregressive model; New Keynesian model; Economic history; BANK-OF-ENGLAND; MONETARY-POLICY; SIGN RESTRICTIONS; STRUCTURAL-CHANGE; BUSINESS CYCLES; MODEL SELECTION; UK; INFLATION; OUTPUT;
D O I
10.1016/j.eeh.2022.101448
中图分类号
F [经济];
学科分类号
02 ;
摘要
This paper presents a history of aggregate demand and supply shocks spanning 1900 - 2016 for the United Kingdom. Sign restrictions derived from a workhorse Keynesian model are used to identify the signs of those shocks. We compare the 30 largest shocks implied by a vector autoregressive model in unemployment and inflation with the narrative historical record. Our approach provides a new perspective on well-known events in economic history. We highlight two episodes of particular interest: an aggregate supply shock in the late 1920s, which we attribute to changes in the bargaining power of labor, and positive aggregate demand shocks in the mid 1970s, which we attribute to fiscal policy.
引用
收藏
页数:22
相关论文
共 82 条
[1]   TESTS FOR PARAMETER INSTABILITY AND STRUCTURAL-CHANGE WITH UNKNOWN CHANGE-POINT [J].
ANDREWS, DWK .
ECONOMETRICA, 1993, 61 (04) :821-856
[2]  
[Anonymous], 2008, TECHNICAL REPORT
[3]   Narrative Sign Restrictions for SVARs [J].
Antolin-Diaz, Juan ;
Rubio-Ramirez, Juan F. .
AMERICAN ECONOMIC REVIEW, 2018, 108 (10) :2802-2829
[4]  
Artis Michael, 1992, TWENT CENTURY BR HIS, V3, P32
[5]  
Backhouse Roger, 2013, HIST EC THOUGHT POLI, V1, P17
[6]   Computation and analysis of multiple structural change models [J].
Bai, J ;
Perron, P .
JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECONOMETRICS, 2003, 18 (01) :1-22
[7]   Drawing conclusions from structural vector autoregressions identified on the basis of sign restrictions [J].
Baumeister, Christiane ;
Hamilton, James D. .
JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL MONEY AND FINANCE, 2020, 109
[8]   International evidence on the sources of macroeconomic fluctuations [J].
Bergman, M .
EUROPEAN ECONOMIC REVIEW, 1996, 40 (06) :1237-1258
[9]  
Blanchard O., 2021, Macroeconomics, V8th
[10]   THE SOLUTION OF LINEAR DIFFERENCE MODELS UNDER RATIONAL-EXPECTATIONS [J].
BLANCHARD, OJ ;
KAHN, CM .
ECONOMETRICA, 1980, 48 (05) :1305-1311