Description

Several emerging economies have, until recently, experienced large government surpluses and accelerating foreign exchange reserve accumulation. This has been accompanied by economic booms, exchange rate appreciations and in some cases increases in domestic inflation. We show that one way to understand these episodes is as manifestations of balance of payments anti-crises, as reflecting the perception that the government intends to discontinue its accumulation of reserves in the near future. The end-phase of such crises is characterized by nominal interest rates approaching their zero lower bound in accelerating fashion and, if the government targets CPI inflation, by fast increasing domestic inflation.

Taxonomy

Balance of payments , Bank regulations , Banks and banking , Economic policy , Financial institutions and markets , Fiscal policy , Inflation , Monetary policy

More publications in this series: Working Papers

More publications by: Isabel K. Yan ; Michael Kumhof