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Record Nr.

UNINA9910136708703321

Autore

Caceres Carlos

Titolo

U.S. Monetary Policy Normalization and Global Interest Rates / / Carlos Caceres, Yan Carriere-Swallow, Ishak Demir, Bertrand Gruss

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C. : , : International Monetary Fund, , 2016

ISBN

1-4755-4306-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (47 pages) : illustrations, tables

Collana

IMF Working Papers

Altri autori (Persone)

Carriere-SwallowYan

DemirIshak

GrussBertrand

Disciplina

332.4973

Soggetti

Monetary policy - United States

Interest rates - United States

Business cycles - United States

Banks and Banking

Foreign Exchange

Macroeconomics

Estimation

Simulation Methods

Business Fluctuations

Cycles

Interest Rates: Determination, Term Structure, and Effects

Money and Interest Rates: Forecasting and Simulation

Monetary Policy

Central Banks and Their Policies

International Business Cycles

Banks

Depository Institutions

Micro Finance Institutions

Mortgages

Externalities

Finance

Currency

Foreign exchange

Banking

Long term interest rates

Yield curve

Short term interest rates

Exchange rate flexibility



Financial services

Spillovers

Financial sector policy and analysis

Interest rates

Banks and banking

International finance

United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Sommario/riassunto

As the Federal Reserve continues to normalize its monetary policy, this paper studies the impact  of U.S. interest rates on rates in other countries. We find a modest but nontrivial pass-through  from U.S. to domestic short-term interest rates on average. We show that, to a large extent, this comovement  reflects synchronized business cycles. However, there is important heterogeneity across  countries, and we find evidence of limited monetary autonomy in some cases. The co-movement  of longer term interest rates is larger and more pervasive. We distinguish between U.S. interest  rate movements that surprise markets versus those that are anticipated, and find that most  countries receive greater spillovers from the former. We also distinguish between movements in  the U.S. term premium and the expected path of risk-free rates, concluding that countries respond  differently to these shocks. Finally, we explore the determinants of monetary autonomy and find  strong evidence for the role of exchange rate flexibility, capital account openness, but also for  other factors, such as dollarization of financial system liabilities, and the credibility of fiscal and  monetary policy.