A new post on Bank Underground
Fernando Eguren-Martin and Andrej Sokol
What’s the relationship between financial conditions and risks to growth in an economy? And, in a world of highly integrated financial markets, to what extent are these “local” risks rather than reflections of global developments? In this post we offer some tentative answers. Financial conditions, measured across a broad range of asset classes and countries, display an important common component reflecting global developments. Loose financial conditions today increase the likelihood of a growth boom over the following few quarters, but when global financial conditions are loose, they increase the chances of a sharp contraction further ahead, highlighting some of the challenges of managing risks to growth across time from a policy maker’s perspective.
The full post is available at https://bankunderground.co.uk/2019/01/24/look-abroad-global-financial-conditions-and-risks-to-domestic-growth/