US Monetary Policy and the Global Financial Cycle [report]

Silvia Miranda-Agrippino, Hélène Rey
2015 unpublished
We analyze the workings of the "Global Financial Cycle." We study the effects of monetary policy of the United States, the center country of the international monetary system, on the joint dynamics of the domestic business cycle and international financial variables such as global credit growth, cross-border credit flows, global banks leverage and risky asset prices. One global factor, driven in part by US monetary policy, explains an important share of the variance of returns of risky assets
more » ... ound the world. We find evidence of large financial spillovers from the hegemon to the rest of the world.
doi:10.3386/w21722 fatcat:zskdrjxgujefdoj4476bxnlcse