Financial Intermediaries and Pressures on International Capital Flows

Linda Goldberg and Samantha Hirschhorn

No 20250922, Liberty Street Economics from Federal Reserve Bank of New York

Abstract: Global factors, like monetary policy rates from advanced economies and risk conditions, drive fluctuations in volumes of international capital flows and put pressure on exchange rates. The components of international capital flows that are described as global liquidity—consisting of cross-border bank lending and financing of issuance of international debt securities—have sensitivities to risk conditions that have evolved considerably over time. This risk sensitivity has been driven, in part, by the composition and business models of the financial institutions involved in funding. In this post, we ask whether these same features have led to changes in the pressures on currency values as risk conditions evolve. Using the Goldberg and Krogstrup (2023) Exchange Market Pressure (EMP) country indices, we show that the features of financial institutions in the source countries for international capital do influence how destination countries experience currency pressures when risk conditions change. Better shock-absorbing capacity in financial institutions moderates the pressures toward depreciation of currencies during adverse global risk events.

Keywords: currency; depreciation; Foreign exchange market; risk; bank capital (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F3 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025-09-22
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DOI: 10.59576/lse.20250922

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