How do world interest rate shocks propagate globally, and what role does the US dollar play in transmitting these shocks and amplifying them through its interaction with global financial risk? This study addresses this question using three classes of VAR models: linear, threshold, and time-varying parameter VARs. We find that world rate shocks have significant adverse effects and that the dollar serves as a key transmission channel. Specifically, these shocks heighten global financial risk and uncertainty, trigger US dollar appreciation, depress global trade, and ultimately contract global GDP.
We emphasize the pivotal role of the dollar in the transmission of such shocks, showing that not only its movements (its appreciation) but also its state (strong vs. weak) matter. Our counterfactuals also reveal a novel amplification mechanism in which the dollar serves as a central actor, operating within a self-reinforcing feedback loop with global financial risk. These counterfactuals further show that global financial risk is a primary driver of dollar appreciation.
Using threshold and time-varying analyses, we document further evidence. Threshold analysis provides strong evidence of the state-dependent effects of world rate shocks, identifying three sources of state dependence: uncertainty state dependence, dollar state dependence, and business-cycle state dependence. It shows that dollar state dependence dominates the remaining sources in global financial dynamics. Time-varying analysis shows that the contractionary effects of such shocks have intensified during the early 2000s and after the global financial crisis, while the dollar’s transmission role has strengthened in the post-GFC period, especially in the post-COVID period.
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