A fistful of dollars: Transmission of global funding shocks to EMs

Shekhar Hari Kumar () and Aakriti Mathur
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Shekhar Hari Kumar: IHEID, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva

No 04-2020, IHEID Working Papers from Economics Section, The Graduate Institute of International Studies

Abstract: In this paper, we study transmission of global funding shocks to emerging economies (EMs) from the perspective of interbank markets. Money markets enable banks to engage in risk-sharing against liquidity shocks and are sensitive to global funding conditions. Accordingly, we first show that interbank rates better reflect the magnitude of transmission of foreign liquidity shocks to EMs as compared to benchmark short-term bond yields. Next, we disentangle the transmission into its various channels, focusing in particular on two pull factors associated with the domestic banking microstructure: dependence on wholesale funding and share of foreign banks. Our results indicate that money market rates in EMs react to global shocks, and that in particular dependence on wholesale funding has a significant role to play. Finally, we provide evidence that tools of macro-prudential policy like reserve requirements can help alleviate liquidity shocks to the EM banking system, weakening this global transmission.

Keywords: International transmission of liquidity shocks; quantitative easing; wholesale funding; interbank rates; macro-prudential policy; reserve requirements (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E43 E44 E52 E58 F42 G14 G15 G21 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 56 pages
Date: 2020-02-27, Revised 2021-02-08
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