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Financial uncertainty and interest rate movements: is Asian bond market volatility different?

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  • Jungsuk Kim

    (Sejong University)

  • Abhishek Kumar

    (Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research)

  • Sushanta Mallick

    (Queen Mary University of London)

  • Donghyun Park

    (Asian Development Bank)

Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic has given rise to a spike in financial market volatility. In this paper, we attempt to assess the effects of financial & news-driven uncertainty shocks in growing Asian economies, using country-specific bond volatility shocks as a measure of local interest rate uncertainty. Also, we contrast the effects of local uncertainty with global stock market uncertainty. Using bond market data from nine Asian markets, we uncover a transmission mechanism of uncertainty shocks via the bond market. The mechanism works as a crowding-out effect due to government-led excessive market borrowing with supply-side consequences for the private sector, as opposed to economic policy or global stock market uncertainty which works more like a demand shock as in the literature. We conclude that countries with growing fiscal deficits that entail a larger government bond market or higher current account deficits, tend to experience an increase in the cost of borrowing due to this bond market volatility or interest rate uncertainty shocks.

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  • Jungsuk Kim & Abhishek Kumar & Sushanta Mallick & Donghyun Park, 2024. "Financial uncertainty and interest rate movements: is Asian bond market volatility different?," Annals of Operations Research, Springer, vol. 334(1), pages 731-759, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:annopr:v:334:y:2024:i:1:d:10.1007_s10479-021-04314-7
    DOI: 10.1007/s10479-021-04314-7
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    Keywords

    Penalty function; Emerging Asia; Uncertainty; Bond market volatility; SVAR; Supply shock; Demand shock;
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    JEL classification:

    • E31 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Prices, Business Fluctuations, and Cycles - - - Price Level; Inflation; Deflation
    • E32 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Prices, Business Fluctuations, and Cycles - - - Business Fluctuations; Cycles
    • E52 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Monetary Policy, Central Banking, and the Supply of Money and Credit - - - Monetary Policy

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