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Title: Fear (no more) of Floating: Asset Purchases and Exchange Rate Dynamics

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This paper studies the impact of local-currency asset purchases by emerging market economy central banks on financial conditions, capital flows and exchange rates, and the implications for conventional monetary policy.
 

AuthorsYasin Mimir (ESM), Enes Sunel (OECD)

Abstract:

We provide a theory on currency dynamics, capital flows and conditions for emerging market economy central bank asset purchases to leave room for manoeuvre for conventional monetary policy. Local-currency asset purchases ease financial conditions and boost banks’ foreign borrowing capacity. Therefore, they curb the financial amplification of government bond sell-off shocks by mitigating private sector capital outflows and the accompanying exchange rate depreciation. The resulting limited rise in inflation reduces the pro-cyclicality of conventional monetary policy. Our framework sheds light on stable exchange rate dynamics observed after the unprecedented asset purchase announcements in emerging-market economies during the COVID-19 crisis.

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Keywords: Asset purchases, exchange rate, conventional monetary policy

JEL codes: E62, E63, G21

 

Source: European Stability Mechanism | Working Paper Series | Volume 2023 | No 57 | May 2023 | 51 Pages
 

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