Introduction Empirical Framework Results Extensions Conclusion
Effects of U.S. Quantitative Easing onEmerging Market Economies
Saroj Bhattarai1 Arpita Chatterjee2 Woong Yong Park3
1University of Texas at Austin2University of New South Wales
3University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
6th Joint BOC/ECB ConferenceJune 8-9, 2015
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Motivation
I After 2008, with the short-term interest rate at the ZLB, the FederalReserve engaged in QE policy
I Active empirical literature on the effects (if any) of QEI Literature largely focusses on domestic implications of QEI Much popular discussion on spillovers to emerging markets
I “Fragile Five” countries (Brazil, India, Indonesia, South Africa, andTurkey) thought to be particularly vulnerable
I Were “Fragile Five” countries affected differently from the rest?
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Motivation
I Literature largely focusses on “announcement effects”of QEI Effects around narrow 1/2-day windows following policy changesI Advantages: can establish causality/exogeneityI Disadvantages: high-frequency financial variables only; dynamic effects?
I Develop a framework suitable forI Inferring both real and financial implications of QEI Analyzing dynamic effectsI Studying both domestic effects and emerging market spillovers
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MotivationUS variables
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MotivationExchange rates against USD
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Our Approach
I Identified monthly BVAR with US dataI Balance sheet variable as a policy instrument from 2008 to mid-2014I Macro variables: output and consumer pricesI Financial variables: govt bond and equity pricesI Zero non-recursive restrictions to identify a US QE shock
I Given the identified US QE shock, assess effects on emerging marketsI Focus first on the “Fragile Five” countries and then extend to othersI Financial variables: exchange rates, bond and equity prices, capital flowsI Macro variables: output, consumer prices, trade flows
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Related Literature
I Announcement effectsI Gagnon et al (2010); Krishnamurthy and Vissing-Jorgensen (2011)
I VAR based identificationI Gambacorta et al (2014); Baumeister and Benati (2011); Wright (2011)
I International effects of US QE policiesI Neely (2010); Chen et al (2011); Glick and Leduc (2011); Bauer andNeely (2013)
I Effects on emerging markets/Fragile FiveI Eichengreen and Gupta (2013); Dahlhaus and Vasishtha (2014);Aizenman et al (2014)
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VAR Framework
I Asset side component of the Fed’s balance sheet as policy instrumentI Securities held outright by the FedI Measure of size and not composition of assetsI Approach similar to Gambacorta et al (2014)
I A “reaction function” similar to conventional monetary policyI The Fed responds systematically to the state of the economyI Isolate the non-systematic component (shock)I Fed observes current long-term Treasury yields while setting policy
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VAR Framework
I Consider a VAR model
A0yt = A+(L)yt + εt
I Use (non-recursive) short-run restrictions for identificationI Sims and Zha (2006a,b) and Leeper, Sims, and Zha (1996)
I Identify structural shock εQE ,t with restrictions on A0I Bayesian inference with a Minnesota-type prior
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US QE Shock Identification
I A0 matrix (similar to Sims and Zha (2006b))
Industrial PCE Securities 10-year S&P500production deflator held-outright Treasury yields index
Prod1 XProd2 X XI X X X X XF X X a1 a2MS a3 a4
I “X”: the corresponding coeffi cient of A0 is not restricted at allI Blanks: the corresponding coeffi cient of A0 is restricted to zeroI Liquidity Priors: Corr (a1, a2) = 0.8 and Corr (a3, a4) = −0.8
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Spillover Effects of QE Shock
I Extract the US QE shock and assess dynamic effects on emergingmarket economies with country specific BVARs
I Bayesian inference with a Minnesota-type prior
I Effectively assume a “block exclusion” structure
zt = B1zt−1 + · · ·+ Bpzt−p + D0εQE ,t + · · ·+ DqεQE ,t−q + ut
I SpecificationI Baseline: 4 variable (IP, CPI, 3 month interest rate and USD exchangerate) VAR with the US QE shock as an exogenous variable
I VAR controls for domestic dynamics and shocksI After baseline estimation, one additional variable at a time
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US QE ShockIRFs of US variables
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US QE ShockShock series and changes in securities held outright
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US QE ShockVariance decomposition of US variables
I What is the contribution of the US QE shock?I Mean and [16%, 84%] quantile
Industrial PCE Securities 10-year S&P500production deflator held-outright Treasury yields index
Impact 0.00 0.00 0.55 0.31 0.03[0.00, 0.00] [0.00, 0.00] [0.33, 0.78] [0.1, 0.51] [0.00, 0.06]
3 month 0.01 0.03 0.51 0.17 0.06[0.00, 0.01] [0.00, 0.05] [0.29, 0.74] [0.02, 0.33] [0.01, 0.12]
6 month 0.04 0.07 0.50 0.17 0.12[0.00, 0.08] [0.02, 0.13] [0.28, 0.72] [0.01, 0.33] [0.02, 0.21]
12 month 0.15 0.15 0.38 0.18 0.18[0.04, 0.26] [0.05, 0.26] [0.19, 0.57] [0.02, 0.36] [0.04, 0.33]
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Spillover Effects of QE ShockUSD exchange rate: Fragile five
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Spillover Effects of QE ShockLong-term interest rate: Fragile five
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Spillover Effects of QE ShockStock price: Fragile five
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Spillover Effects of QE ShockEquity flows: Fragile five
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Spillover Effects of QE ShockNet exports (US): Fragile five
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Spillover Effects of QE ShockOutput: Fragile five
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Spillover Effects of QE ShockCPI: Fragile five
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Spillover Effects of QE Shock
I Now consider other emerging market economiesI Were the “Fragile Five”different?
I Qualitative or quantitative differences?
I Extended sample: Chile, Colombia, Malaysia, Mexico, Peru, SouthKorea, Taiwan, and Thailand
I Same specification for the country specific BVARs
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Spillover Effects of QE ShockUSD exchange rate: Other countries
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Spillover Effects of QE ShockLong-term interest rate: Other countries
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Spillover Effects of QE ShockStock price: Other countries
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Spillover Effects of QE ShockEquity flows: Other countries
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Comparison of Spillover EffectsMedians of the two groups
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Pooled Spillover EffectsPanel VAR
I Estimate the average effect of the US QE shock with a panel BVARI Allow for dynamic heterogeneityI Random coeffi cient approach that partially pools the cross-sectionI Bayesian inference with a Minnesota-type prior
I Consider for country i ,
zi ,t = Bi ,1zi ,t−1 + · · ·+ Bi ,pzi ,t−p +Di ,0εQE ,t + · · ·+Di ,qεQE ,t−q + ui ,t
with ui ,t ∼ N (0,Σi ) , where
Bi ,j = Bj + vBi,jDi ,k = Dk + vDi,k
with vBi,j ∼ N(0,ΩBi,j
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Pooled Spillover EffectsPanel VAR
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Extensions/Robustness
I Recursive short-run restrictions in US VAR?I Extended 7 variable US VAR
I Additional corporate yields and asset prices
I Alternate measures of output, prices, and long-term Treasury yields inbaseline US VAR
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RobustnessRecursive identification-1
I Inference on long-term yields different
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RobustnessRecursive identification-2
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RobustnessExtended US QE Shock Identification
I Extended 7-variable VAR A0 matrix
Ind PCE Securities 10-year Private S&P500 Additionalprod deflator held Treas yields yields index asset price
Prod1 XProd2 X XI X X X X X XI X X X X X X XF X X a1 a2F X X X X XMS a3 a4
I Private sector yields (BofA Merrill Lynch US corporate 10-15 year index; 30 yearconventional mortgage rate)
I Additional asset prices (Effective exchange rate; Core Logic house price index)
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RobustnessExtended VAR
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RobustnessExtended VAR
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RobustnessExtended VAR
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Bhattarai, Chatterjee, and Park Effects of QE on Emerging Market Economies
Introduction Empirical Framework Results Extensions Conclusion
Summary of Domestic Effects of U.S. QE Shock
I Strong and consistent effect on both financial and real variablesI QE shock is estimated to
I Increase IP and PCE DeflatorI Lower long-term yieldsI Increase stock priceI Depreciate the USD
Bhattarai, Chatterjee, and Park Effects of QE on Emerging Market Economies
Introduction Empirical Framework Results Extensions Conclusion
Summary of Spillover Effects of U.S. QE Shock
I Relatively strong and mostly consistent effects on financial variablesI Appreciation against USDI Reduction in long term yieldI Stock market boomI Positive effect on equity flows
I Weak effects on macro variablesI Some evidence on reduction of net exports to the US (Fragile Five)I No significant effect on IP or CPI
I Fragile Five countries respond more strongly than others
Bhattarai, Chatterjee, and Park Effects of QE on Emerging Market Economies
Introduction Empirical Framework Results Extensions Conclusion
Theoretical Channels
I Our results might be consistent with “reaching for yield”or“risk-taking”channel of monetary policy transmission
I Borio and Zhu (2012), Bruno and Shin (2014)
I Extend open economy models to account for results hereI Some unconventional monetary policy channels in the literature
I Central bank expands credit intermediation: Gertler and Karadi (2011)I Increases (otherwise scarce) collateral: Williamson (2012)I Signalling under discretion: Bhattarai, Eggertsson, and Gafarov (2015)
Bhattarai, Chatterjee, and Park Effects of QE on Emerging Market Economies
Introduction Empirical Framework Results Extensions Conclusion
Future Work
I “Systematic”policy effect evaluationI Control for anticipation of QE policyI Spillovers to small-open developed countries (e.g. Canada, Australia,New Zealand, ...)?
Bhattarai, Chatterjee, and Park Effects of QE on Emerging Market Economies