Global Price of Risk and Stabilization Policies

Tobias Adrian, Daniel Stackman () and Erik Vogt ()
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Daniel Stackman: NYU Stern School of Business

IMF Economic Review, 2019, vol. 67, issue 1, No 8, 215-260

Abstract: Abstract We estimate a highly significant price of risk that forecasts global stock and bond returns as a nonlinear function of the VIX. We show that countries’ exposure to the global price of risk is related to macroeconomic risks as measured by output, credit, and inflation volatility, the magnitude of financial crises, and stock and bond market downside risk. Higher exposure to the global price of risk corresponds to both higher output volatility and higher output growth. We document that the transmission of the global price of risk to macroeconomic outcomes is mitigated by the magnitude of stabilization in the Taylor rule, the degree of countercyclicality of fiscal policy, and countries’ tendencies to employ prudential regulations. The estimated magnitudes are quantitatively important and significant, with large cross-sectional explanatory power. Our findings suggest that macroeconomic and financial stability policies should be considered jointly.

JEL-codes: G01 G12 G17 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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