{"title":"Inspecting cross-border macro-financial mechanisms","authors":"Eddie Gerba , Danilo Leiva-León , Margarita Rubio","doi":"10.1016/j.jimonfin.2024.103094","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jimonfin.2024.103094","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>We model structural time-varying macro-financial linkages between the U.S. and euro area using a large dataset for each region. We extract both real and financial cycles and identify shocks, using a factor model with drifting parameters. To interpret the mechanisms that drive the empirical results, we contextualize our estimates using a two-country financial accelerator model. Our evidence speaks clearly of an asymmetric cross-border transmission between U.S. and euro area, especially in the financial domain. This is confirmed by our theoretical complement, which shows a strong transmission of U.S. TFP shocks. Moreover, the U.S. is a more leveraged economy, which accentuates the financial accelerator effect.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48331,"journal":{"name":"Journal of International Money and Finance","volume":"145 ","pages":"Article 103094"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2024-05-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0261560624000810/pdfft?md5=8a5764a8a5f6c023abe82db9272997f1&pid=1-s2.0-S0261560624000810-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140947887","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Commodity currencies revisited: The role of global commodity price uncertainty","authors":"Theodora Bermpei , Laurent Ferrara , Aikaterini Karadimitropoulou , Athanasios Triantafyllou","doi":"10.1016/j.jimonfin.2024.103096","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jimonfin.2024.103096","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Exchange rates of commodity exporting countries, generally known as commodity currencies, are often considered to be driven by some specific commodity prices. In this paper, we show that the uncertainty common to a basket of commodity prices is also a significant driver of exchange rate dynamics for a panel of commodity exporting countries. In particular, an increase in global commodity price uncertainty leads to a short-run depreciation of the effective exchange rate in commodity currency countries, followed by a medium-term rebound. We document that this pattern is specific to commodity currencies and is not visible on benchmark currencies like the euro or the U.S. dollar, the latter acting as a typical safe haven currency. We refer to this pattern as the “commodity uncertainty currency” property.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48331,"journal":{"name":"Journal of International Money and Finance","volume":"145 ","pages":"Article 103096"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2024-05-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140947886","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Freddy Heylen , Marthe Mareels , Christophe Van Langenhove
{"title":"Long-run perspectives on r-g in OECD countries: An empirical analysis","authors":"Freddy Heylen , Marthe Mareels , Christophe Van Langenhove","doi":"10.1016/j.jimonfin.2024.103093","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jimonfin.2024.103093","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The difference between the implicit nominal interest rate and the growth rate of nominal GDP is a key determinant of the dynamics and the sustainability of public debt. This paper studies the determinants of <span><math><mrow><mi>r</mi><mo>-</mo><mi>g</mi></mrow></math></span> in a panel of 17 OECD countries since the early 1980s. Whereas the focus of existing empirical studies is mainly on fiscal, monetary and financial factors behind the interest–growth difference, our approach and contribution are to highlight in particular the role of real long-run determinants, such as technical progress, employment growth, demographic change, and income inequality. This allows us to derive empirically based projections for <span><math><mrow><mi>r</mi><mo>-</mo><mi>g</mi></mrow></math></span> beyond the next five or ten years. Our baseline expectation is that <span><math><mrow><mi>r</mi><mo>-</mo><mi>g</mi></mrow></math></span> will stay below zero for the next two decades in most European countries that we study. An important policy implication is that the debt-carrying capacity of governments is substantially higher now than in the 1980s or 1990s. For the United States, however, our baseline projection of <span><math><mrow><mi>r</mi><mo>-</mo><mi>g</mi></mrow></math></span> is positive.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48331,"journal":{"name":"Journal of International Money and Finance","volume":"145 ","pages":"Article 103093"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2024-05-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0261560624000809/pdfft?md5=0b0c7161a99fe44f58c7485f2d7d5b27&pid=1-s2.0-S0261560624000809-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141024640","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Capital controls and capital flows: Do controls reduce the size of flows?","authors":"Gao Chen","doi":"10.1016/j.jimonfin.2024.103091","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jimonfin.2024.103091","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This paper examines the effectiveness of capital controls in limiting the size of capital outflows based on a large panel data that covers 98 countries from 1995 to 2015. Results in this paper show that imposing comprehensive capital controls that put restrictions on almost all assets categories is the necessary condition to stem outflows. In addition, comprehensive capital controls can also be imposed temporarily to reduce outflows even though a country had a fairly open capital account in the past. This provides policy rationale for using capital controls as a temporary tool to alter outflows when needed. Lastly, on targeting a particular type of asset flows, this paper finds that countries are able to reduce banking flows by closing assets channels that affect banking flows only.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48331,"journal":{"name":"Journal of International Money and Finance","volume":"145 ","pages":"Article 103091"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2024-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141040298","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Trade imbalance, heavy goods, and pollution","authors":"Jungho Lee , Shang-Jin Wei , Jianhuan Xu","doi":"10.1016/j.jimonfin.2024.103090","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jimonfin.2024.103090","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>We propose a new welfare effect of trade surplus. Guided by insight from several fields in economics, we provide evidence that an increase in a country's trade surplus alters the unit shipping costs for its trade and the composition of its imports in ways that induce more pollution in the country in equilibrium. This new form of welfare loss of trade imbalance has not been accounted for in the existing international economics literature.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48331,"journal":{"name":"Journal of International Money and Finance","volume":"144 ","pages":"Article 103090"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2024-04-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140786956","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Christian Abele , Agnès Bénassy-Quéré , Lionel Fontagné
{"title":"The impact of financial tightening on firm productivity: Maturity matters","authors":"Christian Abele , Agnès Bénassy-Quéré , Lionel Fontagné","doi":"10.1016/j.jimonfin.2024.103092","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jimonfin.2024.103092","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>We analyse how the combination of firm-level financial fragility and country-level financial constraints affects productivity growth in France, Italy and Spain. We first show that, although high leverage weighs on firm-level productivity in all three countries, more leveraged firms seem to suffer more from financial constraints only in Italy. In a second step, we show that this apparent specificity of Italian firms is related to the relatively short maturity of their debt. These results highlight the importance of liquidity constraints during periods of financial stress such as the Global Financial Crisis of 2008 or the European sovereign debt and banking crisis of 2011-13.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48331,"journal":{"name":"Journal of International Money and Finance","volume":"144 ","pages":"Article 103092"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2024-04-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140791843","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Oil price shocks and macroeconomic dynamics in resource-rich emerging economies under regime shifts","authors":"Babatunde S. Omotosho , Bo Yang","doi":"10.1016/j.jimonfin.2024.103082","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jimonfin.2024.103082","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>How do global oil price fluctuations affect macroeconomic activity and monetary policy in resource-rich emerging economies? This paper tackles this question by developing a unified emerging market/rest-of-the-world DSGE framework featuring Ricardian and Non-Ricardian households, an oil-producing sector, a fuel subsidy programme, and a regime-switching process. The model is estimated using Bayesian methods, allowing us to be agnostic regarding regime shifts in the monetary policy rule and oil price volatility. Using data for Nigeria, we find substantial empirical support for the regime-switching behaviour and discuss how macroeconomic implications of oil price shocks may vary depending on the nature of the shock, monetary policy responses, and the fuel subsidy policy in place. Apart from providing important insights into the monetary policy transmission mechanism, the paper offers a novel, flexible, and functional model for future policy analysis, especially in resource-rich emerging countries.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48331,"journal":{"name":"Journal of International Money and Finance","volume":"144 ","pages":"Article 103082"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2024-04-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S026156062400069X/pdfft?md5=e65bda46d8d8d0844602e61f03d6fdb3&pid=1-s2.0-S026156062400069X-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140618963","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Financial contagion and networks among the oil and BRICS stock markets during seven episodes of crisis events","authors":"Cody Yu-Ling Hsiao , Yi-Bin Chiu","doi":"10.1016/j.jimonfin.2024.103081","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jimonfin.2024.103081","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>In this study, we contribute to the existing literature on Brent Crude oil and BRICS stock markets by introducing a novel approach for testing financial market contagion, known as the multiple-dependence test. This innovative test simultaneously considers changes in linear, asymmetric, and extremal dependences during crisis periods. By employing this test, we construct contagion networks to gauge the degree of influence among markets within the network system. Our findings unveil that US-sourced crises exert a greater impact on BRICS stock markets compared to non-US-sourced crises. Notably, through dynamic contagion analysis, we ascertain that US-sourced financial crises affect approximately 50% of crisis days on average in the BRICS equity markets, whereas the impact of non-US-sourced crises varies based on their severity and characteristics. Additionally, our exploration of network analysis reveals that US-sourced crises demonstrate more prominent source node attributes within the network encompassing BRICS equity markets, in contrast to non-US-sourced crises.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48331,"journal":{"name":"Journal of International Money and Finance","volume":"144 ","pages":"Article 103081"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2024-04-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140558689","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Can you hear me now? Identifying the effect of Chinese monetary policy announcements","authors":"Harrison Shieh","doi":"10.1016/j.jimonfin.2024.103078","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jimonfin.2024.103078","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Do Chinese monetary policy announcements matter? This study evaluates how relevant Chinese monetary policy announcements are to Chinese financial markets and the real side of the economy. Chinese monetary policy is identified by estimating a “target” factor measuring policy surprises and a “path” factor measuring future expectations of policy using price changes to Chinese financial derivatives on policy announcement dates. Local projection results show that 1) Chinese Treasury yields and interbank rates respond persistently, suggesting that policy transmission through an interest-rate channel exists; 2) Equities and exchange rates do not respond to policy announcements instantaneously, but with a lag; 3) Future expectations of Chinese monetary policy play a larger role than surprises, 4) Real variables show evidence of policy transmission, and 5) policy transmission may be sticky due to information frictions.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48331,"journal":{"name":"Journal of International Money and Finance","volume":"144 ","pages":"Article 103078"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2024-04-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0261560624000652/pdfft?md5=74549c832b0d709d87a55dee0f85ac6d&pid=1-s2.0-S0261560624000652-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140618965","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"State-dependent oil price shocks on inflation and the efficacy of inflation targeting regime","authors":"Inwook Hwang , Xiaoyang Zhu","doi":"10.1016/j.jimonfin.2024.103077","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jimonfin.2024.103077","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This paper investigates the state-dependent effect of oil price shocks on domestic inflation using a panel of 30 countries over the period of 2001Q3 to 2022Q4. We find a significant asymmetric effect over different economic states, with a positive and significant effect during economic boom periods, while no significant effect during bust periods. Such state-dependent effect is also quantitatively verified through a dynamic panel threshold framework. As a related question, the paper also examines the effectiveness of inflation targeting (IT) regime in adjusting the oil price shocks-induced inflation. We evaluate the effectiveness of IT regime from several dimensions: whether it contributes to reducing 1) the level of inflation induced by oil price shocks during boom periods, 2) the probability of oil price shocks-induced inflation deviating from inflation target range, and 3) the duration of inflation deviations from the target range. Our findings indicate that central banks under inflation target regime do not mitigate the level and volatility of inflation induced by oil price shocks more effective than the Non-IT regime. Nevertheless, it reduces the duration of oil price shocks-induced inflation that is above the upper limit of target range. As for the causes, our findings suggest that inflation-targeting central banks do not react aggressively to oil price shocks during economic expansions so as to maintain the positive momentum of economic growth and employment, rather than immediately curbing inflation.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48331,"journal":{"name":"Journal of International Money and Finance","volume":"144 ","pages":"Article 103077"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2024-04-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140558690","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}