One Shock, Many Policy Responses

January 17, 2020

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Rui Mano, and Silvia Sgherri. One Shock, Many Policy Responses, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2020) accessed November 23, 2024

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Summary

Policymakers have relied on a wide range of policy tools to cope with capital flow shocks. And yet, the effects and interaction of these policies remain under debate, as does the motivation for using them. In this paper, quantile local projections are used to estimate the entire distribution of future policy responses to portfolio flow shocks for 20 emerging markets and understand the variety of policy choices across the sample. To assuage endogeneity concerns, estimates rely on the fact that global capital flows are exogenous from the viewpoint of any one of these countries. The paper finds that: (i) policy responses to capital flow shocks are heterogeneous across countries, fat-tailed—“extreme” responses tend to be more elastic than “typical” responses—and asymmetric—“extreme” responses tend to be more elastic with respect to outflows than to inflows; (ii) country characteristics are linked to policy choices—with cross-country differences in forex intervention relating to the size of balance sheet vulnerabilities and the depth of the forex market; (iii) the use of targeted macroprudential policy and capital flows management measures can help “free the hands” of monetary policy by allowing it to focus more squarely on domestic cyclical developments.

Subject: Balance of payments, Capital flows, Central bank policy rate, Exchange rate adjustments, Exchange rates, Financial services, Foreign exchange

Keywords: Capital flows, Capital flows management, Central bank policy rate, De-Facto exchange rate flexibility, Emerging markets, Exchange rate adjustments, Exchange rate response, Exchange rates, Foreign exchange intervention, FX intervention, FX purchase, FX sale, Global, Inflation-targeting monetary policy framework, Macroprudential policies, WP

Publication Details

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44
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Working Paper No. 2020/010
Stock No:

WPIEA2020010
ISBN:

9781513521503
ISSN:

1018-5941

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