Template-Type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0 Author-Name: Primo Autore Author-X-Name-First: Gianni Author-X-Name-Last: Carvelli Author-Email: gianni.carvelli@unicatt.it Author-Workplace-Name: DISCE, Università Cattolica Author-Name: Secondo Autore Author-X-Name-First: Eleonora Author-X-Name-Last: Bartoloni Author-Email: bartolon@istat.it Author-Workplace-Name: ISTAT, Regional Office for Lombardy Author-Name: Terzo Autore Author-X-Name-First: Maurizio Luigi Author-X-Name-Last: Baussola Author-Email: maurizio.baussola@unicatt.it Author-Workplace-Name: DISCE, Università Cattolica Author-Name: Quarto Autore Author-X-Name-First: Quarto Author-X-Name-Last: Autore Author-Email: quarto.autore@unicatt.it Author-Workplace-Name: DISCE, Università Cattolica Title: MONETARY POLICY AND INNOVATION IN EUROPE: AN SVAR APPROACH Abstract: Using quarterly data, we estimate the effects of monetary policy on innovation in the Eurozone over 2000-2021. The identification of the structural shocks relies on an SVAR framework with a set of exclusion restrictions. Although characterised by the predominance of ZLB periods, conventional monetary policy shocks affect private and public R&D spending in the medium term with some initial inertia. Unconventional monetary shocks affect innovative expenditure in the short to medium term, but their impacts vanish in the longer run. Length: 36 pages Creation-Date: 2024-04 Publication-Status: Published in Review of Economics, Month aaaa, pages nn1-nn2 File-URL: https://dipartimenti.unicatt.it/dises-Carvelli-Bartoloni-Baussola_160_DEF.pdf File-Format: Application/pdf File-Function: First version, aaaa Number: dises160 Classification-JEL: O30, E31, E40, E52 Keywords: ECB, Monetary policy, Structural VAR, Innovation Handle: RePEc:ctc:serie2:dises160