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Özge Akinci, Albert Queralto, Exchange Rate Dynamics and Monetary Spillovers with Imperfect Financial Markets, The Review of Financial Studies, Volume 37, Issue 2, February 2024, Pages 309–355, https://doi.org/10.1093/rfs/hhad078
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Abstract
We develop a quantitative model with imperfections in domestic and international financial markets that generates strong effects of U.S. monetary policy on emerging markets (EMs). Financial imperfections prevent arbitrage both between local EM lending and borrowing rates, and between local-currency and dollar borrowing rates. An adverse feedback effect between financial health and external conditions amplifies the domestic “financial accelerator,” leading to large cross-border spillovers of U.S. monetary policy shocks. The model implies a link between uncovered interest parity violations and local credit spreads, a prediction we show the data strongly supports.
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