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Title: How Important is the Global Financial Cycle? Evidence from Capital Flows

Author(s): Eugenio Cerutti, Stijn Claessens and Andrew K Rose

Publication Date: June 2017

Keyword(s): bonds, center, country, data, empirical, equity, FDI, fit, panel and VIX

Programme Area(s): International Macroeconomics and Finance

Abstract: This study quantifies the importance of a Global Financial Cycle (GFCy) for capital flows. We use a panel of capital flow data dis-aggregated by direction and type between 1990Q1 and 2015Q5 for 85 countries, and conventional techniques, models and metrics. Since the GFCy is an unobservable concept, we use two methods to represent it: directly observable variables in center economies often linked to it such as the VIX; and indirect manifestations, proxied by common dynamic factors extracted from actual capital flows. Our evidence seems inconsistent with a significant and conspicuous GFCy; both methods combined rarely explain more than a quarter of the variation in capital flows. Succinctly, most variation in capital flows does not seem to be the result of common shocks or stem from observables in a central country like the United States.

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Cerutti, E, Claessens, S and Rose, A. 2017. 'How Important is the Global Financial Cycle? Evidence from Capital Flows'. London, Centre for Economic Policy Research. https://cepr.org/active/publications/discussion_papers/dp.php?dpno=12075