Estimating Macroeconomic Models of Financial Crises: An Endogenous Regime-Switching Approach

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Gianluca Benigno

Christopher Otrok

Alessandro Rebucci

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2020-10 | July 1, 2021

We develop a new approach to estimating DSGE models with occasionally binding borrowing constraints and apply it to Mexico’s business cycle and financial crisis history. We propose a new endogenous regime-switching specification of the borrowing constraint, develop a general perturbation method to solve the model, and estimate it using Bayesian methods. The estimated model fits the data with well-behaved shocks, identifying three crisis episodes of varying duration and intensity: the early-1980s Debt Crisis, the mid-1990s Tequila Crisis, and the late-2000s Global Financial Crisis. The estimated crisis episodes are much more persistent and in line with the data than traditional models.

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Rebucci, Alessandro, Andrew Foerster, Christopher Otrok, and Gianluca Benigno. 2020. “Estimating Macroeconomic Models of Financial Crises: An Endogenous Regime-Switching Approach,” Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco Working Paper 2020-10. Available at https://doi.org/10.24148/wp2020-10

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Andrew Foerster
Andrew Foerster is a senior research advisor in the Economic Research Department at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco. Learn more about Andrew Foerster