Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/149084 
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Year of Publication: 
2016
Series/Report no.: 
Queen's Economics Department Working Paper No. 1358
Publisher: 
Queen's University, Department of Economics, Kingston (Ontario)
Abstract: 
In this paper, I examine the effects of advanced economies' conventional monetary policy on gross foreign direct and portfolio investment inflows to emerging economies. I use structural vector autoregressions to analyse and compare the response of each inflow category to world interest rate and emerging economies' monetary and exchange rate shocks. Gross foreign direct inflows respond slowly to shocks while gross portfolio reacts on impact. Furthermore, the reaction of foreign direct investment to the shocks is not as high. These results suggest that monetary and exchange rate policies of emerging economies influence portfolio inflows more than they impact foreign direct investment inflows. These results also imply the existence of fundamental differences in capital flow categories beyond what we know to date. I address the "push" and "pull" debate in categories capital flows by quantitatively comparing the forecast error variance decomposition. I do not find evidence of "push" over "pull" factors in either class of inflows.
Subjects: 
Monetary policy
Capital Flows
Emerging Markets
Exchange Rate
Interest Rates
JEL: 
E52
F32
E43
E58
F37
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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