 Capital flow volatility regimes and monetary policy dilemma: Evidence from New ZealandThe Journal of Economic Asymmetries, 2023, vol. 28, issue C Abstract: Mundell–Fleming’s trilemma underlines tradeoffs among three things: stable exchange rates, independent monetary policy, and free capital mobility. Rey (2015) finds that the global financial cycle has transformed the “trilemma” into a “dilemma” that constrains monetary policy independence, regardless of the exchange rate regime. Complementary to the existing literature on this framework, we concentrate on the importance of the volatility regimes of capital flows. We estimate a structural Bayesian threshold vector autoregression (TVAR) on New Zealand quarterly data from 1997:I to 2020:IV. Having allowed for different volatility regimes, we find that the “dilemma” will always bind a small open economy like New Zealand. Not only does the amount of capital flow matter, but its volatility also causes substantial impacts. We also find that a contractionary monetary policy shock lowers capital flow volatility, but hinders real GDP growth in the high volatility regime. Keywords: Trilemma; Capital flows; Monetary policy; Non-linearity; Bayesian; TVAR (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:joecas:v:28:y:2023:i:c:s1703494923000269 DOI: 10.1016/j.jeca.2023.e00314 Access Statistics for this article The Journal of Economic Asymmetries is currently edited by A.G. Malliaris More articles in The Journal of Economic Asymmetries from Elsevier |
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