International Reserves and the Global Financial Crisis

Kathryn Dominguez, Yuko Hashimoto and Takatoshi Ito ()

No 17362, NBER Working Papers from National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc

Abstract: This study examines whether pre-crisis international reserve accumulations, as well as exchange rate and reserve policy decisions made during the global financial crisis, can help to explain cross-country differences in post-crisis economic performance. Our approach focuses not only on the total stock of official reserves held by countries, but also on the decisions by governments to purchase or sell reserve assets during the crisis period. We introduce new data made available through the IMF Special Data Dissemination Standard (SDDS) Reserve Template, which allow us to distinguish interest income and valuation changes in the stock of official reserves from the actively managed component of reserves. We use this novel data to gauge how (and whether) reserve accumulation policies influenced the economic and financial performance of countries during and after the global crisis. Our findings support the view that higher reserve accumulations prior to the crisis are associated with higher post-crisis GDP growth.

JEL-codes: F3 F31 F32 F33 F41 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011-08
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Forthcoming in the Journal of International Economics
Published as International Reserves and the Global Financial Crisis , Kathryn M. E. Dominguez, Yuko Hashimoto, Takatoshi Ito. in Global Financial Crisis , Engel, Forbes, and Frankel. 2012

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