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Monetary Policy through Production Networks: Evidence from the Stock Market

Ali K. Ozdagli1; Michael Weber2

1 Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas · 2 Daniels School of Business, Purdue University , and NBER

Review of Financial Studies 2026

Abstract We study the importance of production networks for the transmission of monetary policy using the stock market reaction as laboratory. We attribute 55% to 85% of the overall response to network effects. Large network effects are a robust feature of the data; we document similar patterns in realized fundamentals. Matching sparsity and the first two outdegrees industry-by-industry can explain large network effects. A simple model with intermediate inputs predicts the reaction of stock returns follows a spatial autoregression, which we exploit for our empirical strategy. Our results suggest production networks are an important mechanism for transmitting monetary policy shocks.

DOI
10.1093/rfs/hhaf106
Volume
39 (5)
Pages
1411-1462
Language
en
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