A Multi-Country Structural VAR Model

Abstract

Traditionally, the VAR literature has focussed on at most two country/region models. A multi-country SVAR highlights the im- portance of various international inßuences on a small open economy Using the example of the effects of US and Japanese shocks on the Aus- tralian economy we show that incorporating both of these economies as international inßuences, and accounting for possible multicollinear- ity between output variables, makes a substantial difference to the amplitude of the impulse responses recovered from the system.structural VAR, open economy, international shocks