Portfolio Flow Research Articles

Impacts of cross‐border equity portfolio flow and central bank transparency on financial development: The role of economic freedom and international bonds

AbstractWe investigate the effects of international equity portfolio diversification and central bank independence on financial development using panel data from 49 countries from 2001 to 2016. We find that international equity portfolio diversification improves financial development. We correspondingly examine potential factors through which international equity portfolio diversification may impact financial development and find that central bank transparency provides an important channel for improving financial development. We further find that the relationship between international equity portfolio diversification and financial development is sensitive to economic freedom. Concerning sequencing, we find that foreign equity and debt flow are complementary to financial system development. Our results are robust to endogeneity using the exogenous shock of the 2008 financial crisis. This study offers new empirical evidence on the relationship between international capital and financial development.

Foreign investor portfolio flow and monetary policy response in the Indonesian stock market considering the COVID-19 pandemic

Foreign portfolio investment in developing countries, including Indonesia, plays a crucial role in the economy, where this fund flow can influence exchange rates and stimulate price increases in the stock market. During the COVID-19 pandemic, the volatility of foreign portfolio flows by investors has significantly increased. To anticipate these conditions, the monetary authorities in Indonesia have implemented various monetary policies to address the possibility of more adverse situations. This study examines the impact of the inflow or outflow of foreign portfolio investments and the monetary policies reflected in the 7-day repo rate of Bank Indonesia on the Indonesian stock market. The data were collected from April 4, 2016, to March 18, 2022. The research methodology involves the Non-Linear Autoregressive Distributed Lag and the Markov Switching Regression (MSR) model. The findings indicate that foreign investor portfolio flows influence the Jakarta Composite Index. There is a tendency for domestic investors to analyze the habits of foreign investors. The study also found that monetary policy is not proven to affect the Jakarta Composite Index, while the USD/IDR exchange rate has an impact on the Indonesian stock market. This indicates many companies listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange have debt in dollars or are paid in US dollars, making them vulnerable to exchange rate fluctuations.

Economic sentiment and foreign portfolio flows: Evidence from Türkiye

The notable surge in capital flows in recent years has emerged as a key factor shaping the dynamics of international financial markets and influencing economic performance of emerging economies. Even though macroeconomic fundamentals of an economy can explain some of the patterns in international capital flows, behavioral factors also seem to be essential for positioning capital flows across countries. In this study, we aim to examine whether overall economic sentiment towards Turkish economy plays a significant role on net portfolio flows to Türkiye. To this end, we first construct a novel text-based sentiment index called "Turkish Economic Sentiment Index (TESI)", to capture the behavioral tendencies of international investors and media towards Türkiye. Our subsequent step integrates TESI into autoregressive distributed lag models (ARDL) alongside major pull-push determinants to assess whether market sentiment holds discernible influence on capital influx into Turkey. The results reveal that the TESI and VIX stand out as pivotal determinants influencing international portfolio flows. The TESI has a positive impact on portfolio flow dynamics, whereas the degree of global risk aversion inversely affects these flows. These findings align with the contention that a favorable sentiment can boost portfolio inflows to emerging markets. Conversely, heightened volatility expectations in global markets can prompt outflows from these economies.

The global financial cycle and capital flows during the COVID-19 pandemic

We estimate the heterogeneous effect of the global financial cycle on exchange rates and cross-border capital flows during the COVID-19 pandemic, using weekly exchange rate and portfolio flow data for a panel of 59 advanced and emerging market economies. We estimate a global financial cycle (GFC) index at the weekly frequency with data through the end of 2021. We then estimate the country-specific sensitivities of exchange rates and capital flows to fluctuations in the GFC. The ability of the GFC to explain fluctuations in exchange rates and capital flows increased dramatically during the pandemic. There is significant cross-country heterogeneity in the response of exchange rates or capital flows to fluctuations in the GFC. During the pandemic, high-frequency indicators like weekly changes in Covid cases and vaccination rates were just as important as standard macroeconomic fundamentals like the current account, reserves, and net foreign assets in explaining this heterogeneity.

Political uncertainty and cross-border equity portfolio allocation decisions: International evidence

Political risk models highlight that political uncertainty matters for corporate investment decisions. However, how political uncertainty matters for investment allocation decisions is relatively under-explored. In this study, we examine the impact of political uncertainty associated with national elections on foreign equity portfolio in 48 countries. Our results indicate that political uncertainty reduces international equity allocations to the host country and such reduction appears more pronounced in the election year. Further analysis shows that the interaction between political uncertainty and institutional quality has a positive and significant effect on international equity portfolio flow, suggesting that the value of institutional quality outweighs the negative effects of political uncertainty. Lastly, we find equity home bias to be negative and significant; however, the interaction between political uncertainty and equity home bias appears insignificant.

Economic policy uncertainty and cost of capital: the mediating effects of foreign equity portfolio flow

Economic policy uncertainty and cost of capital: the mediating effects of foreign equity portfolio flow

Analysis of Portfolio Investment in Indonesia Macroeconomy

This research examines the cause of portfolio flows in Indonesia and the effect of portfolio flows to the Indonesian economy based on monetary policy approach. By analyze the interactions among portfolio investment, global and domestic macroeconomy, and financial variables by employing a structural vector autoregression model, this study finds: 1) that both global and domestic factors play the role in driving the portfolio flows in Indonesia; 2) the portfolio flows play the role in driving the domestic financial market, by the order starts from asset prices, followed by exchange rate and lastly credit; 3) the portfolio flows play a role in driving the Indonesian economic growth. The percentage of the effect of portfolio is relatively large compared to the other variables, but in total, the percentage of portfolio flows in driving the economic growth is quite small. Nonetheless, the impulse response function result shows that the shock in portfolio flow can affect the economic growth.

A Regime Switching Skew-Normal Model of Contagion in Major African Stock Markets

This study was carried out to examine the contagion and structural break for some selected African stock markets namely: Nigeria, Ghana, South Africa (SA), Tunisia, and the US stock market. To achieve this, two periods were considered, that is the crisis period, 31st December, 2013 to 31st December, 2017 and the non-crisis period, 1st January, 2018 to 31st December, 2019. The choice of these periods was to reflect the structural break caused by economic recession in Nigeria during the crisis period. The expectation is that there is capital flight from Nigerian equities to safety in the selected emerging economies in Africa and in the US economy. Following the work of Chan et al (2018), the study used Regime Switching Skew-Normal (RSSN, henceforth) model which is capable of measuring contagion and structural breaks between markets and across crisis and non-crisis periods. The RSSN model was estimated using Bayesian method. The study finds the existence of moderate contagion between Nigeria and SA and the absence of contagion with the rest of the economies, suggesting there is capital flight from equities in Nigeria to SA for safety during the 2016 economic recession. Also, the study confirms the presence of structural break between crisis and non-crisis periods as the probability of average return declines during crisis period. The absence of contagion among African stock markets suggests there is no significant economic cooperation and cross-border portfolio investment flow among the countries. This development further underpins the imperative of the full implementation of African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA), which is to encourage economic activities and investment flow on the continent.

Foreign equity portfolio flow and corruption: A cross‐country evidence

AbstractThis study examines the impact of foreign equity portfolio investment on corruption. Employing a large dataset of 44 countries from 2001 to 2015 and three different measures of corruption, our results show that foreign investors from well‐governed countries tend to foster public accountability, reduce asymmetry information and corruption. We find empirical evidence that foreign equity portfolio investment interacts with stock market development and central bank transparency to reduce corruption. Our results suggest that stock market development and central bank transparency are regarded as complementary by international portfolio investors. Further analysis indicates that corruption appears more prevalent in countries where domestic investors dominate the stock market. Our results are robust to endogeneity using dynamic generalized methods of moments (GMM). The findings suggest that attracting foreign equity investors reduces corruption, implying significant benefits for portfolio diversification.

Global uncertainties and portfolio flow dynamics of the BRICS countries

This paper investigates the dynamics of bond and stock market capital flows to BRICS countries under uncertainties such as global economic policy uncertainty and the US trade policy uncertainty. We use a time-varying Granger causality framework over the January 2008-November 2019 period to analyze the predictive power of uncertainties on capital flows in the form of bond and equity. The results show that the effects are heterogeneous across countries and stronger during the Global Financial Crisis period and post-2018 period while it lost its significance in the subsequent period. The negative influence of uncertainties on capital flows directed to BRICS countries is also evident in the results of non-parametric time-varying panel models. Overall, it is thought that the heterogeneous structure of the causality between uncertainty and portfolio flows into BRICS may present portfolio diversification benefits for global investors.

Calculation of Value-at-Risk Variance-Covariance with the Approach of Simple Cash Portfolio, Factor Models and Cash Flow

One way to calculate Value-at-Risk (VaR) is the variation-covariance method. The calculation of VaR covariance assumes stock data is normally distributed. The data needed to calculate VaR by the variance-covariance method is the covariance matrix of Bank Danamon and Bank Mandiri stock data. The main topics discussed in this paper are calculating VaR covariance with a simple cash portfolio approach, factor models and cash flow. For comparison of the use of the three approaches Backtesting, the backtest results indicate that the factor model is the best method.

Cross-Border Portfolio Flows and News Media Coverage

This paper investigates the dynamic linkages between portfolio flows and various news indices (based on both positive and negative news headlines collected from Bloomberg), whilst also controlling for a comprehensive set of push and pull factors. The monthly panel examined comprises 49 developed and developing countries in addition to the US (the home economy) and covers the period from January 2007 to October 2017; the econometric model includes fixed effects. The empirical results document the important role played by the news variables. More specifically, news pessimism and intensity affect bond flows more than equity flows, and US news appears to play a leading role in these portfolio flow dynamics. By contrast, changes in news pessimism and intensity have a more significant impact on equity flows, and again US news tend to have more sizeable effects. News sentiment is generally found to be an important driver of portfolio flows, whilst only US news disagreement has a significant effect, and only on bond inflows into the US. Most results are robust to the exclusion of the six financial centres from the full sample. As for push and pull factors, most of them (equity return differentials, interest rate spreads, the VIX index, capital controls, exchange rate regimes, CDS spreads, QE episodes, financial development and commodity prices) are significant and with the expected signs.

Capital Flows and Foreign Exchange Intervention

I consider a small open economy model where international financial markets are imperfect and the exchange rate is determined by capital flows. I use this framework to study the effects of portfolio flow shocks, derive the optimal foreign exchange intervention policy, and characterize its interaction with monetary policy. I derive the optimal intervention rule in closed form as a function of three implicit targets. Finally, using Swiss data, I estimate the model to quantify the inefficiencies generated by capital flow shocks and the optimal size of the intervention. (JEL E44, E52, E63, F31, F32, F33, F41)

Fluxo de capital e desigualdade de renda no Brasil (1981-2014)

Este artigo investiga a influência do fluxo de capital de portfólio sobre a distribuição de renda brasileira entre os anos de 1981 e 2014 com o uso do VEC. Os resultados indicam que esse fluxo impacta de forma desfavorável a desigualdade do Brasil. De acordo com o modelo de Demirguc-Kunt e Levine (2009), isso ocorreria em virtude da melhora das condições das famílias que já utilizam o mercado financeiro e pelo não acesso de famílias mais pobres a ele. Outro canal seria que esse mercado, ainda que se abrisse para as famílias pobres, não estaria fornecendo instrumentos para a obtenção de renda por meio de atividades produtivas.

Determinants of the real exchange rate in the long-run for developing and emerging countries: a theoretical and empirical approach

This paper presents a new framework for the determinants of real exchange in the long-run in developing and emerging countries (DECs). We assume that currencies should be regarded as an asset. In consequence, dealers in the foreign exchange market play a crucial role on its dynamics. To set our model, we connect the model developed by Kaltenbrunner, which is grounded on chapter 17 of the General Theory, with productivity’s differential effect. By doing so, it states that even short-run factors and monetary variables affect the long-run real exchange rate. Moreover, it points out that the hierarchical nature of the international monetary system is crucial to understand exchange rate movements in DECs. Besides presenting such theoretical approach, our contribution is to test it empirically for 45 DECs from 1990 to 2008 by applying econometric techniques appropriate for panel data. We use a new data-set, which comprises, among other variables, foreign portfolio flow, interest rate differential, external vulnerability measures, and international liquidity, on annual basis. The empirical results endorse this framework. Overall, it shows the primacy of financial factors as determinants of the long-run real exchange rate and points to the endogenous and self-perpetuating nature of international monetary system hierarchy.

Macro-Financial Effects of Portfolio Flows: Malaysia's Experience

This paper studies the causes and effects of portfolio flows in Malaysia. We use Structural Vector Autoregression (SVAR) and Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) models to analyse the interactions among portfolio flows, global and domestic macro and financial variables within a common empirical framework. Three findings emerge: First, the SVAR estimations show that global and domestic factors play transitory roles in driving Malaysia’s net portfolio flows. A subsample analysis from the ARDL model highlights that domestic factors play an increasingly important role in attracting portfolio inflows as Malaysia liberalised its exchange rate regime and capital flow restrictions. Second, higher net portfolio flows lead to exchange rate appreciation, higher equity prices and credit expansion. The effects are visible in the exchange rate, followed by equity prices and credit. Third, in the transmission of higher portfolio flows to growth, the positive effects from higher equity prices and credit are partially offset by the dampening effect from the appreciating exchange rate on output. While the contribution of portfolio flow’s effects on output variance is low, the impulse responses of output does change to portfolio flow shocks, suggesting that portfolio flows are tail risks to growth and that the risks magnify when the flows are large and volatile.

How Effective are Macroprudential Policies? An Empirical Investigation

In recent years, policymakers have generally relied on macroprudential policies to address financial stability concerns. However, our understanding of these policies and their efficacy is limited. In this paper, we construct a novel index of domestic macroprudential policies in 57 advanced and emerging economies covering the period from 2000:Q1 to 2013:Q4, with tightenings and easings recorded separately. The effectiveness of these policies in curbing bank credit growth and house price inflation is then assessed using a dynamic panel data model. The main findings of the paper are: (1) Macroprudential policies have been used far more actively after the global financial crisis in both advanced and emerging market economies. (2) These policies have primarily targeted the housing sector, especially in the advanced economies. (3) Macroprudential policies are usually changed in tandem with bank reserve requirements, capital flow management measures, and monetary policy. (4) Empirical analysis suggests that macroprudential tightening is associated with lower bank credit growth, housing credit growth, and house price inflation. (5) Targeted policies--for example, those specifically intended to limit the growth of housing credit--seem to be more effective. (6) In emerging economies, capital inflow restrictions targeting the banking sector are also associated with lower credit growth, although portfolio flow restrictions are not.

The Role of Push and Pull Factors in Driving Global Capital Flows

The present study investigates the main drivers of the capital flows and explicitly models regional interactions. Using a structural VAR framework, the capital flows are analyzed into global “push” factors and country-specific “pull” factors. Evidence suggests that significant inter-regional as well as intra-regional differences exist in the factors that drive capital flows. In particular, the foreign push factors explain the flow of foreign direct investments to majority of Asia whereas, such flows to Latin American economies are mainly driven by the pull factors. This is in contrast to portfolio flow dynamics. The push factors dominate the portfolio flows to Latin American countries whereas, both the factors are equally important for the Asian portfolio flows. Furthermore, it is found that the Asian capital flows have a positive effect on the flow of capital to Latin American region and they explain large variation in the capital flows to that region but interestingly, the reverse is not the case. JEL Classification: C32, F21, F32

Space enterprise strategy guiding-based study on project portfolio management and flow optimization

Project portfolio management (PPM) is the centralized management method, process and technology in multiple projects. When multiple projects in the space industry are implemented, it provides an effective methodology to resolve the problems at the same time such as conflicts among models, decrease in design efficiency, and increase in target deviation. Hence, a PPM dedicated to multiple projects management in space enterprise is presented in this paper. Firstly, an analysis of features and contents in space enterprise portfolio management mode is performed by using PPM based on its specific strategic characteristics. Then, the principle and selection methods of PPM are provided as a reference for the future development of an enterprise. Finally, a multiple-level organization architecture including decision making layers, function management layers and project execution layers is proposed so as to adapt to possible changes in the multiple projects and correspond to the strategic development. As a consequence, a perfect matching mechanism to fit the changes in PPM modes is reached. In addition, the flow chart of PPM is designed and optimized by analyzing the implementation procedure of strategic target and project portfolio life-cycle, which is expected to realize the purpose of improving space enterprise management efficiency, project management capacity, innovation development and economic benefits.

How Effective are Macroprudential Policies? An Empirical Investigation

In recent years, policymakers have generally relied on macroprudential policies to address financial stability concerns. However, our understanding of these policies and their efficacy is limited. In this paper, we construct a novel index of domestic macroprudential policies in 57 advanced and emerging economies covering the period from 2000:Q1to 2013:Q4, with tightenings and easings recorded separately. The effectiveness of these policies in curbing bank credit growth and house price inflation is then assessed using a dynamic panel data model. The main findings of the paper are: (1) Macroprudential policies have been used far more actively after the global financial crisis in both advanced and emerging market economies. (2) These policies have primarily targeted the housing sector, especially in the advanced economies. (3) Macroprudential policies are usually changed in tandem with bank reserve requirements, capital flow management measures, and monetary policy. (4) Empirical analysis suggests that macroprudential tightening is associated with lower bank credit growth, housing credit growth, and house price inflation. (5) Targeted policies for example, those specifically intended to limit the growth of housing credit seem to be more effective. (6) In emerging economies, capital inflow restrictions targeting the banking sector are also associated with lower credit growth, although portfolio flow restrictions are not.