The Dynamics of Capital Flow Episodes

Christian Friedrich and Pierre Guérin

Staff Working Papers from Bank of Canada

Abstract: This paper proposes a novel methodology for identifying episodes of strong capital flows based on a regime-switching model. In comparison with the existing literature, a key advantage of our methodology is to estimate capital flow regimes without the need for context- and sample-specific assumptions. We implement this approach using weekly fund flows data for a large set of advanced and emerging economies. As an application of our methodology to the global financial cycle literature, we use a time-varying structural vector-autoregressive (VAR) model to assess the impact of U.S. stock market volatility (VIX) shocks and U.S. monetary policy shocks on aggregated measures of equity outflow and equity inflow episodes. Our results indicate that both VIX and U.S. monetary policy shocks had substantially time-varying effects on episodes of strong capital flows over our sample period.

Keywords: Econometric and statistical methods; International financial markets; International topics; Uncertainty and monetary policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F21 F32 G11 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 54 pages
Date: 2016
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