 Monetary policy spillovers: Is this time different?Hongyi Chen and Peter Tillmann Journal of International Money and Finance, 2025, vol. 152, issue C Abstract: Monetary policy changes in the U.S. have important cross-border effects on small open economies. Since 2022, the Fed has tightened monetary policy considerably, yet it appears that spillovers on the rest of the world are smaller than in the past. We investigate this idea by analyzing the international propagation of Fed policy using a panel of advanced and emerging economies since 1994. We distinguish the current tightening cycle from previous ones and find that international spillovers from the 2022/3 U.S. monetary tightening episode are more benign than the historical average. We estimate smooth-transition local projections in which spillovers depend on the state of the U.S. business cycle. We find that if domestic demand in the U.S. is weak, international spillovers are large. However, spillovers are absent if demand in the U.S. remains strong. Hence, a “soft landing“ of the U.S. economy makes a difference for the magnitude of international spillovers from U.S. monetary policy to the rest of the world. Keywords: Spillovers; Fed; Emerging markets; Financial integration; Global financial cycle (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:jimfin:v:152:y:2025:i:c:s0261560625000130 DOI: 10.1016/j.jimonfin.2025.103278 Access Statistics for this article Journal of International Money and Finance is currently edited by J. R. Lothian More articles in Journal of International Money and Finance from Elsevier |
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