Financial openness, the financial accelerator and sectoral dynamics

Joonyoung Hur and Emmanuel Lartey

International Review of Economics & Finance, 2016, vol. 42, issue C, 277-290

Abstract: This paper studies the role of financial openness and the financial accelerator in the sectoral dynamics generated in a small open economy following capital inflow. The results show that where the financial accelerator exists, capital inflow in response to a foreign interest rate shock ultimately results in intersectoral resource transfer that is favorable to the nontradable sector under different monetary policies; the magnitude of the expansion in the nontradable sector being greater under a higher degree of financial openness. The study also finds that, in comparison to CPI inflation targeting, nontradable inflation targeting is better at mitigating resource transfers toward production of nontradables, and at reducing and stabilizing both nontradable inflation and CPI inflation. Furthermore, the findings suggest that the financial accelerator mechanism matters for the effectiveness of monetary policy in addressing dynamics pertinent to the Dutch disease phenomenon, such that CPI inflation targeting is only effective in such a scenario where the financial accelerator is non-existent, and that nontradable inflation targeting operates more effectively in the absence of the financial accelerator as well.

Keywords: Financial openness; Monetary policy; Nontradable inflation; Dutch disease (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E52 F40 F41 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1016/j.iref.2015.11.006

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