Global financial conditions, country spreads and macroeconomic fluctuations in emerging countries
Ozge Akinci
Journal of International Economics, 2013, vol. 91, issue 2, 358-371
Abstract:
This paper uses a panel structural vector autoregressive (VAR) model to investigate the extent to which global financial conditions, i.e., a global risk-free interest rate and global financial risk, and country spreads contribute to macroeconomic fluctuations in emerging countries. The main findings are: (1) global financial risk shocks explain about 20% of movements both in the country spread and in the aggregate activity in emerging economies. (2) The contribution of global risk-free interest rate shocks to macroeconomic fluctuations in emerging economies is negligible. Its role, which was emphasized in the literature, is taken up by global financial risk shocks. (3) Country spread shocks explain about 15 percent of the business cycles in emerging economies. (4) Interdependence between economic activity and the country spread is a key mechanism through which global financial shocks are transmitted to emerging economies.
Keywords: Global financial risk; Country risk premium; International business cycles; Small open economy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F41 G15 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jinteco.2013.07.005
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