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Nathan Converse, Eduardo Levy-Yeyati, Tomas Williams, How ETFs Amplify the Global Financial Cycle in Emerging Markets, The Review of Financial Studies, Volume 36, Issue 9, September 2023, Pages 3423–3462, https://doi.org/10.1093/rfs/hhad014
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Abstract
We study how the growth of exchange-traded funds (ETFs) affects the sensitivity of international capital flows to the global financial cycle. Using comprehensive fund-level data on investor flows, we show that their sensitivity to global financial conditions for equity (bond) ETFs is 2.5 (2.25) times higher than for equity (bond) mutual funds. This higher sensitivity can be directly linked to ETFs underlying shorter-trading-horizon clientele that trades more often in response to shocks. Using country-level data, we find that where ETFs hold a larger share of financial assets, equity inflows and prices become more sensitive to global risk.
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