Macroeconomic Consequences of Foreign Exchange Futures Market for Inflation Targeting Economies

Syarifuddin, Ferry (2020): Macroeconomic Consequences of Foreign Exchange Futures Market for Inflation Targeting Economies.

Abstract

Although the discussion on foreign exchange (FX) futures market has drawn significant concern in the economic literature, this paper is the first attempt to address how the FX futures market impacts macroeconomic conditions with the inflation targeting regime. We use a dataset comprising of four emerging market countries with inflation targeting regime and active FX futures market, namely Brazil, Mexico, Turkey, and India, from January 2015 to December 2018. By utilizing Bayesian Panel Vector Autoregressions, we find that the FX futures rate shocks significantly affect the macroeconomic environment and monetary policy due to the strong relationship between the spot and futures market. We also find the initial indication of the market squeezing mechanism in the FX futures market. However, it occurs only in a small magnitude and a short period and thus, the spot exchange rate, inflation rate, and economic growth would not fluctuate abnormally. Our findings are robust for the various robustness checks.

• Item Type: MPRA Paper
• Language: English
• Keywords: Foreign Exchange Futures Market, Inflation Targeting Framework, Macroeconomy, Emerging Economies
• Subjects: E - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics > E5 - Monetary Policy, Central Banking, and the Supply of Money and Credit > E52 - Monetary Policy; E - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics > E5 - Monetary Policy, Central Banking, and the Supply of Money and Credit > E58 - Central Banks and Their Policies; G - Financial Economics > G2 - Financial Institutions and Services > G23 - Non-bank Financial Institutions ; Financial Instruments ; Institutional Investors

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