Tag: Global financial cycle

Nonbank lenders as global shock absorbers

David Elliott, Ralf Meisenzahl and José-Luis Peydró

Capital flows and credit growth are strongly correlated across countries. Macroeconomic evidence suggests that this ‘global financial cycle’ is largely driven by US monetary policy: expansionary policy by the Federal Reserve drives increases in lending globally, while contractionary Fed policy leads to a tightening of global financial conditions. Existing academic literature emphasises the role of banks in propagating these US monetary policy spillovers. But in recent decades, nonbank financial intermediaries have grown in importance. In a recent paper, we investigate the impact of US monetary policy on international dollar lending by nonbanks relative to banks, and show that nonbank lenders play an important role in absorbing US monetary policy shocks.

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Attention to the tail(s): global financial conditions and exchange rate risks

Fernando Eguren-Martin and Andrej Sokol

Asset prices tend to co-move internationally, in what is often described as the ‘global financial cycle’. However, one such asset class, exchange rates, cannot by definition all move in the same direction. In this post we show how the ‘global financial cycle’ is associated with markedly different dynamics across currencies. We enrich traditional labels such as ‘safe haven’ and ‘risky’ currencies with an explicit quantification of exchange rate tail risks. We also find that several popular ‘risk factors’, such as current account balances and interest rate differentials, can be linked to these differences.

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