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Contents
  1. Global financial transmission: equation removal and unidentified amplification
  2. Question and restrictions
  3. A dynamic system with explicit channel switches
  4. Perfect observation of the shock is still insufficient
  5. Interaction accounting
  6. Completion Estimate
  7. Remaining gap and reference

Global financial transmission: equation removal and unidentified amplification

Status: Unresolved. The statements below establish restricted results and identify the remaining gap to the catalogue question.

Question and restrictions

The agenda asks for country responses to a safe-asset-demand shock and contributions of funding and nonbank channels, with each channel removed by a specified equation intervention. We derive the intervention response in a linear dynamic system and show that even an observed normalized shock need not identify a channel contrast. The example concerns impact responses; the matrix result handles prespecified finite horizons under its own stability conditions.

A dynamic system with explicit channel switches

Let $x_t\in{\mathbb{R}}^d$ contain funding and nonbank states, with initial state fixed before the shock. The structural equations are \[ x_t=B x_t+A x_{t-1}+g z_t+\varepsilon_t,\qquad Y_{c,t}=\ell_c^\top x_t+\xi_{c,t}. \] The scalar innovation $z_t$ has mean zero and preintervention variance one and is independent of other innovations. All innovations are centered, have finite second moments, and are independent over time for this benchmark. A diagonal matrix $D$ with entries zero or one selects active channel equations. The intervention replaces the system by \[ x_t=D(Bx_t+A x_{t-1}+g z_t+\varepsilon_t).\tag{1} \] A zero coordinate is frozen at its pre-shock deviation zero; all active equations continue to adjust. Assume $I-DB$ is invertible for every regime used and $T_D=(I-DB)^{-1}DA$ has spectral radius below one. These are assumptions for each regime, not consequences of factual stability alone.
Theorem (Horizon response under equation removal): For a unit intervention on $z_t$ and no changes to the other innovations, the country response at horizon $h\geq0$ in regime $D$ is \[ \tau_{c,D}(h)=\ell_c^\top T_D^h r_D,\qquad r_D=(I-DB)^{-1}Dg.\tag{2} \] If a centered dated instrument $q_t$ satisfies ${\mathbb{E}}[q_tz_t]=\pi\ne0$ and is orthogonal to pre-shock states, other current innovations, all future innovations and measurement errors, the factual total response is identified by \[ \tau_{c,I}(h)=\frac{{\mathbb{E}}[q_tY_{c,t+h}]}{\pi}. \] This ratio presumes the unit-shock calibration $\pi$ is known or identified; an instrument alone does not supply its scale.
Proof: Solve (1) for $x_t$, obtaining $x_t=T_Dx_{t-1}+r_Dz_t+(I-DB)^{-1}D\varepsilon_t$. Differentiating at the shock date gives derivative $r_D$. Subsequent derivatives multiply by $T_D$, proving (2) by induction. In the factual regime, iterate the same recursion to express $Y_{c,t+h}$ as $\tau_{c,I}(h)z_t$ plus a linear combination of the pre-shock state, other innovations and errors. Multiplying by $q_t$ and taking expectations kills all those other terms by the stated exclusions, leaving $\pi\tau_{c,I}(h)$. ∎

Perfect observation of the shock is still insufficient

Consider the impact-only subclass, with $z$ itself observed, ${\mathbb{E}} z=0$, ${\operatorname{Var}} z=1$, and \[ f=(1-b)z+b n,\qquad n=z,\qquad Y=f, \qquad b\in[0,\bar b],\quad0<\bar b<1.\tag{3} \] There are no other shocks, so $A=0$. The observations include the complete factual vector $(z,f,n,Y)$. The omitted structural coefficient $b$ measures feedback from nonbank conditions to funding. Freezing the nonbank channel sets $n=0$; freezing funding sets $f=0$.
Theorem (Sharp nonidentification and nonadditivity): Every $b$ in (3) has the identical factual law $f=n=Y=z$, and total impact response one. The nonbank-removal contrast has sharp identified set $[0,\bar b]$. The funding-removal contrast is one. Their sum is $1+b$ and need not equal the total response.
Proof: Substituting $n=z$ into the funding equation gives $f=z$ independently of $b$. With nonbanks frozen, $f=(1-b)z$, so the difference from the total response is $b$. With funding frozen, $Y=f=0$, so that difference is one. Every $b$ in the parameter interval defines an admissible invertible system: $B$ is strictly upper triangular and $A=0$, satisfying all stability requirements. Hence all values in the stated interval, and no others in this declared class, are observationally attainable. ∎

The ambiguity is not a rotation of a latent principal component: the innovation and both channel variables are already observed. The structural splitting of a factual response into direct and feedback terms remains unidentified.

Proposition (An independent channel experiment resolves the example): Suppose an additional intervention adds an observed centered innovation $r$, with positive variance and independent of $z$, to the nonbank equation, so $n=z+r$, while leaving the funding equation in (3) unchanged. Then \[ b=\frac{{\operatorname{Cov}}(r,f)}{{\operatorname{Cov}}(r,n)} \] is point identified, and so is the nonbank-removal contrast.
Proof: Substitution gives $f=z+br$. Independence yields ${\operatorname{Cov}}(r,f)=b{\operatorname{Var}} r$ and ${\operatorname{Cov}}(r,n)={\operatorname{Var}} r>0$. The ratio identifies $b$ and the preceding theorem identifies its causal interpretation under the unchanged structural equation. ∎

Interaction accounting

In (3), the four responses with no channel, funding alone, nonbanks alone and both are respectively $0,1-b,0,1$. Averaging marginal contributions over the two introduction orders gives funding $1-b/2$ and nonbanks $b/2$. These add to one by construction but differ from the removal contrasts. They answer an explicitly order-averaged allocation question.

Completion Estimate

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This is a post hoc, heuristic estimate for the full catalogue target. The attempt derives equation-removal horizon responses and instrument identification in a stable linear system, and proves sharp channel ambiguity plus a resolving independent experiment. It does not identify empirical safe-asset shocks or structural matrices and nonlinear country transmission across crisis states with endogenous portfolios and policy reactions.

Remaining gap and reference

The matrix formula does not identify its structural matrices from reduced-form responses. Credible channel experiments require their own exclusions, portfolio invariance and timing assumptions. State-dependent crises require separate regimes or nonlinear local derivatives; one factual stability estimate does not establish transport across them. No country ranking, crisis effect or empirical safe-asset shock is estimated here.

Bank of England (2026), Bank of England Agenda for Research, 2025--2028, "The Interconnected World" and international-propagation priorities. https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/research/bank-of-england-agenda-for-research. This supports the broad transmission agenda. The linear structural class, interventions and identification examples above are the restricted formal contribution of this attempt.