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Monetary Tightening and Financial Stress during Supply- versus Demand-Driven Inflation
The paper explores the state-dependent effects of a monetary policy tightening on financial stress, focusing on a novel dimension: whether inflation is driven by supply factors versus demand factors at the time of the policy intervention. We use local projections to estimate the effect of high frequency identified monetary policy surprises on a variety of financial stress measures, differentiating the effects based on whether inflation is supply-driven or demand-driven. We find that financial stress flares up after a monetary tightening when inflation is supply-driven whereas it remains ...