Taper Tantrums: QE, Its Aftermath and Emerging Market Capital Flows

59 Pages Posted: 23 Mar 2017 Last revised: 11 Jul 2018

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Anusha Chari

University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill - Department of Economics; National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER); University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill - Kenan-Flagler Business School; Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR)

Karlye Dilts Stedman

Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City

Christian T. Lundblad

University of North Carolina Kenan-Flagler Business School; Frank Hawkins Kenan Institute of Private Enterprise

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Date Written: June 26, 2018

Abstract

This paper examines the spillover effects of U.S. unconventional monetary policy (UMP) on emerging market capital flows and asset prices. Affine term structure model estimates show that U.S. monetary policy shocks, identified with high-frequency Treasury futures data, represent revisions to expected short-term yields and term premia, especially during the UMP period. The policy shocks exhibit sizable effects on U.S. holdings of emerging-market assets. These effects disproportionately manifest through valuation changes versus physical flows, are more pronounced for equity relative to bond markets, and are asymmetric between the QE and tapering periods, with flows more important during the unwinding.

Keywords: Unconventional monetary policy, U.S. investors, international spillovers, emerging markets, high frequency identification, affine term structure models, asset prices, portfolio flows

JEL Classification: E52, E58, F21, F32, G15

Suggested Citation

Chari, Anusha and Dilts Stedman, Karlye and Lundblad, Christian T., Taper Tantrums: QE, Its Aftermath and Emerging Market Capital Flows (June 26, 2018). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2938080 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2938080

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