FX Resilience around the World: Fighting Volatile Cross-Border Capital Flows
General Economics
2022-10-11 v1 Economics
Abstract
We show that capital flow (CF) volatility exerts an adverse effect on exchange rate (FX) volatility, regardless of whether capital controls have been put in place. However, this effect can be significantly moderated by certain macroeconomic fundamentals that reflect trade openness, foreign assets holdings, monetary policy easing, fiscal sustainability, and financial development. Passing the threshold levels of these macroeconomic fundamentals, the adverse effect of CF volatility may be negligible. We further construct an intuitive FX resilience measure, which provides an assessment of the strength of a country's exchange rates.
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@article{arxiv.2210.04648,
title = {FX Resilience around the World: Fighting Volatile Cross-Border Capital Flows},
author = {Louisa Chen and Estelle Xue Liu and Zijun Liu},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2210.04648},
year = {2022}
}