Vulnerable Growth

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Tobias Adrian

International Monetary Fund

Nina Boyarchenko

Federal Reserve Bank of New York

Domenico Giannone

International Monetary Fund (IMF); Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR)

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Date Written: 2016-09-29

Abstract

We study the conditional distribution of GDP growth as a function of economic and financial conditions. Deteriorating financial conditions are associated with an increase in the conditional volatility and a decline in the conditional mean of GDP growth, leading the lower quantiles of GDP growth to vary with financial conditions and the upper quantiles to be stable over time: Upside risks to GDP growth are low in most periods while downside risks increase as financial conditions become tighter. We argue that amplification mechanisms in the financial sector generate the observed growth vulnerability dynamics.

Keywords: Downside risk, entropy, quantile regressions

JEL Classification: C22, E17, E37

Suggested Citation

Adrian, Tobias and Boyarchenko, Nina and Giannone, Domenico, Vulnerable Growth (2016-09-29). FRB of NY Staff Report No. 794, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2845784

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Domenico Giannone

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Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR)

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