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Title: Foreign Currency Bank Funding and Global Factors

Author(s): Signe Krogstrup and C�dric Tille

Publication Date: May 2018

Keyword(s): Capital Flows, cross-border transmission of shocks, currency mismatch, European bank balance sheets, push factors and Spillovers

Programme Area(s): International Macroeconomics and Finance

Abstract: The literature on drivers of capital flows stresses the prominent role of global financial factors. Recent empirical work, however, highlights how this role varies across countries and time, and this heterogeneity is not well understood. We revisit this question by focusing on financial intermediaries' funding flows in different currencies. A portfolio model shows that the sign and magnitude of the response of foreign currency funding flows to global risk factors depend on the financial intermediary's pre-existing currency exposure. Analysis of data on European banks' aggregate balance sheets lends support to the model predictions, especially in countries outside the euro area.

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Krogstrup, S and Tille, C. 2018. 'Foreign Currency Bank Funding and Global Factors'. London, Centre for Economic Policy Research. https://cepr.org/active/publications/discussion_papers/dp.php?dpno=12933