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Portfolio investments and fragility in emerging economies: detection tools
[Investissements de portefeuille et fragilisation des pays émergents : des outils de détection]

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  • Florian LALANNE
  • Irena PERESA
  • Sophie RIVAUD

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Over the past decade, emerging economies have experienced repeated withdrawals of capital by non resident investors (“sudden stop” episodes). This was also the case recently, with the tensions of mid 2018 related to the tightening of monetary policy in the United States. These sudden stops have major consequences for the economic and financial conditions of the affected countries. Rapidly detecting such episodes is thus an essential part of the risk analysis for these countries. To this end, the authors present the data available as well as the advanced estimators constructed at the Banque de France, which also allow a detailed analysis of the determinants of capital flows. Via an empirical application of these higher frequency tools, the authors demonstrate the influence of financial conditions in the United States on recent trends in gross portfolio flows to emerging economies. Depuis dix ans, les pays émergents ont subi des épisodes répétés de retrait des investisseurs non-résidents (« sudden stop »). Ce fut encore le cas récemment avec les tensions du milieu de l’année 2018, lors du resserrement de la politique monétaire américaine. Ces sudden stop ont des conséquences importantes sur les conditions financières et l’activité dans les économies touchées. La détection rapide de ce type d’épisodes constitue alors une part essentielle de l’analyse du risque dans ces pays. Les auteurs présentent les données disponibles et les estimateurs avancés construits à la Banque de France pour ce faire. Ces outils à fréquence plus élevée permettent également d’analyser en détail les déterminants de ces mouvements de capitaux. À l’aide d’une application empirique, les auteurs montrent l’influence des conditions financières aux États-Unis sur les évolutions récentes des flux bruts de portefeuille vers les pays émergents.

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  • Florian LALANNE & Irena PERESA & Sophie RIVAUD, 2019. "Portfolio investments and fragility in emerging economies: detection tools [Investissements de portefeuille et fragilisation des pays émergents : des outils de détection]," Bulletin de la Banque de France, Banque de France, issue 226.
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    • F30 - International Economics - - International Finance - - - General
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