The Spillover Effects of U.S. Monetary Policy on Emerging Market Economies: Breaks, Asymmetries and Fundamentals

Geun-Young Kim (), Hail Park () and Peter Tillmann
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Geun-Young Kim: Economic Research Institute, Bank of Korea
Hail Park: Department of International Business and Trade, Kyung Hee University

No 2016-1, Working Papers from Economic Research Institute, Bank of Korea

Abstract: The recent implementation of unconventional monetary policies in advanced economies and the preparations for an eventual return to normalization have renewed the interest in spillover effects of monetary policy on emerging market economies. This paper estimates a series of VAR-X models for a set of 10 emerging economies, that is, VARs in which U.S. policy enters exogenously. The contribution of this paper is (1) to use an identified shock component of the U.S. (shadow) Federal Funds rate as a consistent policy instrument for conventional and unconventional policies, (2) to account for changes in the transmission of U.S. monetary policy over time, (3) to quantify asymmetries in the transmission of tightening and easing shocks, and (4) to relate the exposure of emerging countries with macroeconomic fundamentals. The results point to substantially nonlinear and asymmetric spillover effects, which pose challenges to policymakers.

Keywords: Conventional-Unconventional monetary policy; Spillovers; Emerging markets; VAR-X model; Asymmetries (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E58 F32 F42 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 36 pages
Date: 2016-01-09
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