Pub Date : 2025-12-04DOI: 10.1016/j.jimonfin.2025.103499
Antonio Fatás , Bram Gootjes , Joseph Mawejje
Fiscal rules have been shown to support fiscal discipline by improving government budget balances and restraining the growth of debt. However, questions remain about what enhances their effectiveness and how certain conditions help to build the credibility needed for their survival and success. Using data from 116 countries between 1984 and 2015, this paper studies the dynamic effects of fiscal rule adoption. It shows that although fiscal rules generally improve the cyclically adjusted primary balance, their effects depend on the time horizon under consideration and the context of adoption. In advanced economies and countries with strong political institutions, the effects strengthen over time. Conversely, in emerging markets and developing economies—especially those with weaker institutions—their impact tends to fade as time passes. The findings highlight the critical role of economic conditions and consensus building at the time of adoption. Specifically, fiscal rules introduced in times of economic hardship or under highly concentrated political power are often less effective in the medium term. Good design of fiscal rules is important, but it is no silver bullet.
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Pub Date : 2025-12-04DOI: 10.1016/j.jimonfin.2025.103495
Nico Petz , Thomas O. Zörner
This paper analyzes business cycle synchronization and the Phillips curve relationship in Central, Eastern, and Southeastern European (CESEE) economies relative to the euro area. Using business cycles extracted with a Kalman filter and applying several synchronization measures, we find that CESEE EU countries are more closely aligned with the euro area than their non-EU counterparts. Heterogeneities are most pronounced during the early 2000s, the global financial crisis, and the euro crisis. We find strong evidence of a time-varying unemployment-inflation relationship, with a post-COVID-19 steepening of the Phillips curve and negative slope coefficients in nearly all countries. Phillips curve slopes increasingly converge toward the euro area, particularly among EU members whose post-2022 dynamics are closely aligned. These results highlight the role of EU membership in fostering economic synchronization and the need to account for time variation when assessing convergence in the face of major shocks.
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Pub Date : 2025-12-04DOI: 10.1016/j.jimonfin.2025.103504
Joshua Aizenman , Hiro Ito , Donghyun Park , Jamel Saadaoui , Gazi Salah Uddin
The Global Financial Crisis and the COVID-19 pandemic were two major shocks to the world economy in the 21st century. In this study, we analyze the patterns of recessions and recoveries of 101 advanced and developing economies. We identify the turning points of recessions and expansions between 1990 and 2022, and perform cross-country analysis of domestic and external drivers of economic recovery. In addition to the standard independent variables, we include institutional development, political stability, the extent of democracy, and trade restrictions indexes, and explore their roles in explaining recessions and recovery patterns. For the whole sample, we find that deeper recessions are followed by stronger recoveries, in line with Friedman’s plucking model of the business cycle. However, the empirical evidence for the plucking model becomes weaker if institutional development is limited and trade restrictions are high. We show that recessions that create conflict and trade tensions differ sharply from those that do not, a relevant finding in the current global climate of heightened trade tensions and geopolitical uncertainty. Finally, since developing countries tend to have weaker institutions and higher trade barriers, our evidence suggests that countercyclical monetary and fiscal policy will have to play a bigger role in cushioning global shocks in those countries. This, in turn, requires more robust and credible monetary and fiscal policy frameworks.
{"title":"Global shocks, institutional development, and trade restrictions: What can we learn from crises and recoveries between 1990 and 2022?","authors":"Joshua Aizenman , Hiro Ito , Donghyun Park , Jamel Saadaoui , Gazi Salah Uddin","doi":"10.1016/j.jimonfin.2025.103504","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jimonfin.2025.103504","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The Global Financial Crisis and the COVID-19 pandemic were two major shocks to the world economy in the 21st century. In this study, we analyze the patterns of recessions and recoveries of 101 advanced and developing economies. We identify the turning points of recessions and expansions between 1990 and 2022, and perform cross-country analysis of domestic and external drivers of economic recovery. In addition to the standard independent variables, we include institutional development, political stability, the extent of democracy, and trade restrictions indexes, and explore their roles in explaining recessions and recovery patterns. For the whole sample, we find that deeper recessions are followed by stronger recoveries, in line with Friedman’s plucking model of the business cycle. However, the empirical evidence for the plucking model becomes weaker if institutional development is limited and trade restrictions are high. We show that recessions that create conflict and trade tensions differ sharply from those that do not, a relevant finding in the current global climate of heightened trade tensions and geopolitical uncertainty. Finally, since developing countries tend to have weaker institutions and higher trade barriers, our evidence suggests that countercyclical monetary and fiscal policy will have to play a bigger role in cushioning global shocks in those countries. This, in turn, requires more robust and credible monetary and fiscal policy frameworks.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48331,"journal":{"name":"Journal of International Money and Finance","volume":"161 ","pages":"Article 103504"},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2025-12-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145748022","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Using a market-indicator-based approach, this paper empirically examines whether the stability of the US and EU financial systems is affected by the digital finance revolution driven by BigTechs, FinTechs, and crypto-assets. These three sectors display different downside volatility profiles, with financial intermediaries being particularly sensitive to shocks from the crypto ecosystem only under extremely severe downturns, which are prevented in regulated equity markets. In that vein, we provide evidence that the Markets in Crypto Assets Regulation reduced financial systemic risk in EU. Overall, our empirical analysis shows that markets perceive the performance and riskiness of tech-driven companies and assets in differentiated ways, and that the transmission of shocks from digital finance ecosystems operates uniquely under varying conditions of systemic stress. Finally, we also document asymmetric spillover effects between advanced and emerging economies, with shock transmission from the US and EU to emerging markets being systematically stronger than in the reverse direction.
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Pub Date : 2025-12-01DOI: 10.1016/j.jimonfin.2025.103496
Bruno Albuquerque , Eugenio Cerutti , Yosuke Kido , Richard Varghese
This paper shows that not all housing price cycles are alike. The speed and persistence of house price increases during housing expansions are key determinants of both the severity of the subsequent downturn and the net macroeconomic impact over the cycle. Analyzing 180 housing expansions across 68 countries, we classify 49 % as housing booms, characterized by rapid and persistent real house price increases. We find that economic downturns are significantly deeper and longer when housing contractions are preceded by a housing boom. The housing contraction is more severe the more intense the preceding housing boom, and when accompanied by a credit boom. Overall, while housing booms spur stronger economic growth during the expansion phase, their sharp reversals lead to severe housing contractions, resulting in significant net negative effects on the real economy.
{"title":"Not all housing cycles are created equal: Macroeconomic consequences of housing booms","authors":"Bruno Albuquerque , Eugenio Cerutti , Yosuke Kido , Richard Varghese","doi":"10.1016/j.jimonfin.2025.103496","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jimonfin.2025.103496","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This paper shows that not all housing price cycles are alike. The speed and persistence of house price increases during housing expansions are key determinants of both the severity of the subsequent downturn and the net macroeconomic impact over the cycle. Analyzing 180 housing expansions across 68 countries, we classify 49 % as housing booms, characterized by rapid and persistent real house price increases. We find that economic downturns are significantly deeper and longer when housing contractions are preceded by a housing boom. The housing contraction is more severe the more intense the preceding housing boom, and when accompanied by a credit boom. Overall, while housing booms spur stronger economic growth during the expansion phase, their sharp reversals lead to severe housing contractions, resulting in significant net negative effects on the real economy.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48331,"journal":{"name":"Journal of International Money and Finance","volume":"161 ","pages":"Article 103496"},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2025-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145694233","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-12-01DOI: 10.1016/j.jimonfin.2025.103497
Yuanyuan Li , Xun Wang , Jingwen Yu
The transmission mechanisms of global liquidity shocks have garnered significant attention, particularly in the context of emerging market economies. This study contributes to this literature by empirically examining a novel household income channel through which foreign-owned enterprises (FOEs) propagate US monetary policy shocks to host countries. Leveraging a large Chinese individual-level survey dataset, we uncover a hitherto understudied mechanism linking external monetary tightening to income dynamics in the private sector. Tightening US monetary policy shocks exhibit a significantly larger contractionary effect on individuals employed in FOEs relative to those in non-FOEs. These spillover effects are more pronounced for individuals working in industries with greater external financial dependence and in provinces with less developed financial sector. Moreover, the income dampening effect of US monetary policy shocks through FOEs affects household consumption, and households with greater financing constraints are more prominently affected. Our paper provides new insights into how FOEs act as transmission intermediaries for external liquidity shocks, affecting the host country’s economy.
{"title":"FOEs and the transmission of US monetary policy shocks: Evidence from China","authors":"Yuanyuan Li , Xun Wang , Jingwen Yu","doi":"10.1016/j.jimonfin.2025.103497","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jimonfin.2025.103497","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The transmission mechanisms of global liquidity shocks have garnered significant attention, particularly in the context of emerging market economies. This study contributes to this literature by empirically examining a novel household income channel through which foreign-owned enterprises (FOEs) propagate US monetary policy shocks to host countries. Leveraging a large Chinese individual-level survey dataset, we uncover a hitherto understudied mechanism linking external monetary tightening to income dynamics in the private sector. Tightening US monetary policy shocks exhibit a significantly larger contractionary effect on individuals employed in FOEs relative to those in non-FOEs. These spillover effects are more pronounced for individuals working in industries with greater external financial dependence and in provinces with less developed financial sector. Moreover, the income dampening effect of US monetary policy shocks through FOEs affects household consumption, and households with greater financing constraints are more prominently affected. Our paper provides new insights into how FOEs act as transmission intermediaries for external liquidity shocks, affecting the host country’s economy.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48331,"journal":{"name":"Journal of International Money and Finance","volume":"161 ","pages":"Article 103497"},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2025-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145748021","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-11-27DOI: 10.1016/j.jimonfin.2025.103488
Helmut Herwartz , Christian Ochsner , Hannes Rohloff
Pointing to the prominent role of global shocks in determining financial outcomes, global credit aggregates and indicators of country-specific credit market stress co-move to a significant extent. In this work, we examine the transmission of global credit supply shocks associated with governments, businesses and households to the country level. In a data-rich environment, we show that a substantial amount of variation in credit aggregates and interest rates is explained by common global credit supply components. In addition, we find that real risk and term premia and their associated uncertainties (i.e., realized volatilities) transmit global shocks to country-level debt and equity markets. However, effect magnitudes and signs are heterogeneous across sectors, and highlight the relevance of sector-specific credit market monitoring. For instance, whereas global government credit supply eases financial pressures, acting as safe-haven lending, global household credit supply shocks significantly increase risk and liquidity premia across the globe. An investigation of monetary policy effects of major central banks (Fed, ECB, BoE, BoJ) on global credit supply reveals important transmission heterogeneities of conventional versus unconventional policies.
{"title":"How do credit supply conditions transmit across the globe?","authors":"Helmut Herwartz , Christian Ochsner , Hannes Rohloff","doi":"10.1016/j.jimonfin.2025.103488","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jimonfin.2025.103488","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Pointing to the prominent role of global shocks in determining financial outcomes, global credit aggregates and indicators of country-specific credit market stress co-move to a significant extent. In this work, we examine the transmission of global credit supply shocks associated with governments, businesses and households to the country level. In a data-rich environment, we show that a substantial amount of variation in credit aggregates and interest rates is explained by common global credit supply components. In addition, we find that real risk and term premia and their associated uncertainties (i.e., realized volatilities) transmit global shocks to country-level debt and equity markets. However, effect magnitudes and signs are heterogeneous across sectors, and highlight the relevance of sector-specific credit market monitoring. For instance, whereas global government credit supply eases financial pressures, acting as safe-haven lending, global household credit supply shocks significantly increase risk and liquidity premia across the globe. An investigation of monetary policy effects of major central banks (Fed, ECB, BoE, BoJ) on global credit supply reveals important transmission heterogeneities of conventional versus unconventional policies.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48331,"journal":{"name":"Journal of International Money and Finance","volume":"161 ","pages":"Article 103488"},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2025-11-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145694230","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-11-27DOI: 10.1016/j.jimonfin.2025.103487
Silvio Contessi , Qingyuan Du , Deting Gao , Lei Pan , Shenxiang Xie
This paper examines how exchange rate regime flexibility impacts the allocation of labor across firms. Specifically, we investigate how differences in labor-intensity or capital-intensity in production affect employment decisions under various degrees of exchange rate regime flexibility. In a simple theoretical model, we show that firms utilizing more labor-intensive production technologies are more likely to expand their employment when the exchange rate they face becomes less flexible. In contrast, firms employing more capital-intensive technology tend to hire more workers when the exchange rate is more flexible. We test our theory using granular firm-level data from China and provide robust evidence supporting the theoretical predictions.
{"title":"Exchange rate regime flexibility and firms’ employment","authors":"Silvio Contessi , Qingyuan Du , Deting Gao , Lei Pan , Shenxiang Xie","doi":"10.1016/j.jimonfin.2025.103487","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jimonfin.2025.103487","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This paper examines how exchange rate regime flexibility impacts the allocation of labor across firms. Specifically, we investigate how differences in labor-intensity or capital-intensity in production affect employment decisions under various degrees of exchange rate regime flexibility. In a simple theoretical model, we show that firms utilizing more labor-intensive production technologies are more likely to expand their employment when the exchange rate they face becomes less flexible. In contrast, firms employing more capital-intensive technology tend to hire more workers when the exchange rate is more flexible. We test our theory using granular firm-level data from China and provide robust evidence supporting the theoretical predictions.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48331,"journal":{"name":"Journal of International Money and Finance","volume":"161 ","pages":"Article 103487"},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2025-11-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145694232","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-11-27DOI: 10.1016/j.jimonfin.2025.103483
Raphaelle G. Coulombe , Jaroslav Horvath
Compared to small open advanced economies (AEs), emerging market economies (EMEs) exhibit simultaneously higher volatility and procyclicality of government spending, two features likely to amplify business cycle fluctuations. To rationalize these stylized facts, we augment the canonical small open economy model with heterogeneous parties and repeated elections with endogenous voting. We relate the distinct dynamics of government spending in EMEs to a combination of larger interest rate fluctuations and a higher degree of political polarization. While, on their own, interest rate shocks and political polarization account, respectively, for about a quarter and a half of government spending variance in EMEs, we show that higher political polarization amplifies the macroeconomic effects of interest rate shocks by increasing political turnover. We provide corroborating evidence for this mechanism by documenting that EMEs exhibit, on average, larger political turnover than AEs.
{"title":"Government spending dynamics in small open economies","authors":"Raphaelle G. Coulombe , Jaroslav Horvath","doi":"10.1016/j.jimonfin.2025.103483","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jimonfin.2025.103483","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Compared to small open advanced economies (AEs), emerging market economies (EMEs) exhibit simultaneously higher volatility and procyclicality of government spending, two features likely to amplify business cycle fluctuations. To rationalize these stylized facts, we augment the canonical small open economy model with heterogeneous parties and repeated elections with endogenous voting. We relate the distinct dynamics of government spending in EMEs to a combination of larger interest rate fluctuations and a higher degree of political polarization. While, on their own, interest rate shocks and political polarization account, respectively, for about a quarter and a half of government spending variance in EMEs, we show that higher political polarization amplifies the macroeconomic effects of interest rate shocks by increasing political turnover. We provide corroborating evidence for this mechanism by documenting that EMEs exhibit, on average, larger political turnover than AEs.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48331,"journal":{"name":"Journal of International Money and Finance","volume":"161 ","pages":"Article 103483"},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2025-11-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145694231","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-11-26DOI: 10.1016/j.jimonfin.2025.103484
Thuy Hang Duong , Weifeng Larry Liu
From the 1990s until the COVID-19 pandemic, the world experienced a sustained period of low and stable inflation, alongside a marked increase in trade integration among countries. This paper examines the impacts of international trade on inflation through domestic production networks. We first construct a theoretical model of an open economy to illustrate how domestic input–output networks propagate the price impacts of trade shocks. Using Australia as a case study, we find that the network impacts of trade shocks on inflation are as significant as their direct impacts, and primarily propagate upstream, based on data from 47 manufacturing industries from 2000 to 2023. Australia’s low inflation before COVID benefited from increased exposure to China’s low-cost exports, while inflation surged during episodes of global supply chain disruptions, among other factors. This paper underscores the importance of economic globalization and production structures for inflation, and offers several implications for monetary and trade policies.
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