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Unforeseen Events Wait Lurking: Estimating Policy Spillovers From U.S. to Foreign Asset Prices

By Tamim Bayoumi, Trung T Bui

August 1, 2011

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Tamim Bayoumi, and Trung T Bui. Unforeseen Events Wait Lurking: Estimating Policy Spillovers From U.S. to Foreign Asset Prices, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2011) accessed November 23, 2024
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Summary

Event studies are used to analyze the impact of U.S. financial, fiscal, and monetary policies from US to foreign asset prices across a range of G20 countries and Switzerland. The initial announcement that the Administration supported tighter regulation of banks led to a generalized fall in advanced economy bank shares compared to local equity markets. For later Dodd-Frank announcements, however, falls in U.S. bank equity prices were accompanied by increases in U.K. and Swiss valuations, implying a potential for regulatory arbitrage. Turning to macro policies, the 2008/9 fiscal and monetary stimulus packages generally supported foreign activity, while the impact of similar stimulus in 2010 is less clear.

Subject: Asset prices, Banking, Bond yields, Emerging and frontier financial markets, Financial institutions, Financial markets, Monetary policy, Prices, Stocks, Unconventional monetary policies

Keywords: Africa, Asset prices, Bank excess return, Bond yields, Emerging and frontier financial markets, Equity price, Equity price indicator, Equity return, Europe, Event studies, Excess return, Fed funds rate, Global, Interntational asset price transmission, Market condition, Policy announcements, Price, Stocks, Treasury yield, Treasury yield, Unconventional monetary policies, WP, Yield, Yields matter

Publication Details

  • Pages:

    45

  • Volume:

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  • DOI:

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  • Issue:

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  • Series:

    Working Paper No. 2011/183

  • Stock No:

    WPIEA2011183

  • ISBN:

    9781462309290

  • ISSN:

    1018-5941

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