Data and Code for: The Term Structure of Growth-at-Risk

Principal Investigator(s): View help for Principal Investigator(s) Tobias Adrian, International Monetary Fund; Federico Grinberg, International Monetary Fund; Nellie Liang, Brookings; Sheherya Malik, International Monetary Fund; Jie Yu, Columbia University

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Project Citation:

Adrian, Tobias, Grinberg, Federico, Liang, Nellie, Malik, Sheherya, and Yu, Jie. Data and Code for: The Term Structure of Growth-at-Risk. Nashville, TN: American Economic Association [publisher], 2022. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2022-06-24. https://doi.org/10.3886/E129441V1

Project Description

Summary: We show that the conditional distribution of forecasted GDP growth depends on financial conditions in a panel of 11 advanced economies. Financial conditions have a larger effect on the lower 5th percentile of conditional growth—which we call growth-at-risk (GaR)—than the median. In addition, the term structure of GaR reflects that when initial financial conditions are loose, downside risks are lower in the near-term but increase in later quarters. This intertemporal tradeoff for loose financial conditions is amplified when credit-to-GDP growth is rapid. Using granular instrumental variables, we also provide evidence that the relationship from loose financial conditions to future downside risks is causal. Our results suggest that models of macrofinancial linkages should incorporate the endogeneity of higher-order moments to systematically account for downside risks to growth in the medium run.

Scope of Project

Subject Terms: macroeconomics; financial economics; macroeconomics; financial economics; macro-financial; macroeconomics

JEL Classification:
      E10 General Aggregative Models: General
      F44 International Business Cycles
      G10 General Financial Markets: General (includes Measurement and Data)

Geographic Coverage: Canada, Sweden, United States, Japan, United Kingdom, Italy, Australia, France, Switzerland, Germany, Spain

Time Period(s): 1973 – 2017

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