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Breaking the Triple Coincidence inInternational Finance∗
Hyun Song ShinBank for International Settlements
Keynote speech at seventh conference ofIrving Fisher Committee on Central Bank Statistics
Basel, 5 September 2014
∗Views expressed here are the author’s, not necessarily those of the BIS.
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“Economic territory” 1 “Economic territory” 2
Output 1 Output 2
Figure 1. Boundary for national income accounting defines “economic territory”
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Economic territory 1 Economic territory 2
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Figure 2. Boundary for national income accounting defines decision-making unit
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Economic territory 1(USD)
Economic territory 2(JPY)
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Figure 3. Boundary for national income accounting defines exchange rates as relative prices across boundary
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Economic territory 1(deficit)
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Figure 4. Boundary for national income accounting defines balance of payments and external claims/liabilities
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Economic territory 1 Economic territory 2
Central bank 1 Central bank 2
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Exchangerate
Figure 5. Boundary for national income accounting defines reach of monetary policy; floating exchange ratesensures monetary policy autonomy
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“Triple Coincidence”
• Boundary of national income area
• Boundary defining decision-making unit with coherent preferences— Consumption and savings decisions (e.g. “global savings glut”)— Portfolio choice decisions (e.g. preference for “safe assets”)
• Boundary defining currency area— Exchange rate as relative price level
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Three Examples
1. “Roundtrip” bank capital flows from United States to Europe and thenback to the United States (2003 - 2008)
2. Offshore issuance of corporate bonds by EM borrowers (2010 - )
3. Cross-border banking and global liquidity (2003 - 2008)
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Example 1
“Roundtrip” bank capital flows from Europe to the United States
(2003 - 2008)
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Figure 6. Schematic of “safe asset preference” view of global imbalances
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Figure 8. Net interoffice assets of foreign banks in U.S. given by negative of Federal Reserve weekly H8 serieson “net due to related foreign offices of foreign-related institutions”
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Figure 9. Amount owed by banks to US prime money market funds (% of total), based on top 10 primeMMFs, representing $755 bn of $1.66 trn total prime MMF assets (Source: IMF GFSR Sept 2011, datafrom Fitch).
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Figure 10. Gross external assets and external liabilities of the U.S. banking system (ODC sector) byinstrument (source: Errico et al. (2013))
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Figure 11. Counterparties by location of the “Currency and Deposits” component of the U.S. banking system(ODC sector) (Source: Errico et al. (2013))
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Figure 12. European global banks add intermediation capacity for connecting US savers and borrowers(Source: Shin (2012))
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Example 2
Offshore issuance of corporate bonds by EM borrowers
(2010 - )
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Figure 13. International debt securities outstanding (all borrowers) from China by nationality and by residence(Source: BIS Debt Securities Statistics, Table 11A and 12A)
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Figure 14. International debt securities outstanding (all borrowers) from Brazil by nationality and by residence(Source: BIS Debt Securities Statistics, Table 11A and 12A)
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Figure 15. International debt securities outstanding for non-financial corporates from India by nationalityand by residence (Source: BIS Debt Securities Statistics, Table 11D and 12D)
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Figure 16. Offshore borrowing by multinational firm from emerging economy
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Figure 17. Non-financial firms as intermediary. In this diagram, firms with access to internationalcapital markets act as an intermediary for outside funding when the banking sector has restricted access tointernational capital markets.
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Figure 18. Source: Philip Turner (2014) BIS working paper 441
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Impact on Emerging Economies
• EME local currency bond yields— fell in tandem with advanced economy bond yields— began to move in lock-step with advanced economy bond yields
• Explosion of EME corporate bond issuance activity, especially offshoreissuance
— Implications for domestic monetary aggregates and potential for runsof wholesale deposits
— Currency mismatch on consolidated corporate balance sheets
• Transmission channel is reinforced by exchange rate changes
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Elements in Distress Loop
1. Steepening of local currency yield curve
2. Currency depreciation, corporate distress, freeze in corporate CAPEX,slowdown in growth
3. Runs of wholesale corporate deposits from domestic banking sector
4. Asset managers cut back positions in EME corporate bonds citing slowergrowth in EMEs
5. Back to Step 1, and repeat...
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Unfamiliar Problems
• Asset managers (not banks) are at the heart of transmission mechanismin the Second Phase of Global Liquidity
• Textbooks say long-term investors are benign, not a force fordestabilization
• How do we adjust to the new world?
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Example 3
Cross-border banking and global liquidity(2003 - 2008)
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Borrowersin A
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Figure 19. Topography of global liquidity
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Figure 20. Topography of global liquidity
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Figure 21. Foreign currency claims and liabilities of BIS reporting banks (Source: BIS Locational statistics5A)
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Three BIS working papers
• Borio, Claudio (2014) “The International Monetary and Financial System:Its Achilles Heel and What To Do About It” BIS Working Paper 456http://www.bis.org/publ/work456.pdf
• Borio, Claudio, Harold James and Hyun Song Shin (2014)“The International Monetary and Financial System: ACapital Account Historical Perspective” BIS Working Paper 457http://www.bis.org/publ/work457.pdf
• Bruno, Valentina and Hyun Song Shin (2014) “Cross-borderBanking and Global Liquidity” BIS Working Paper 458http://www.bis.org/publ/work458.pdf
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Bruno and Shin (2014)
RegionalBank Global Bank
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Figure 22. Cross-border bank lending in US Dollars
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Where to draw the boundary?
The balance sheet chain is consistent with many variants with differentplacement of the border:
• The local bank can be within the border (say, branch of foreign-ownedbank)
• The local bank can be in a neighbouring jurisdiction
• The asset side of the global bank could be in a regional financial centre(Hong Kong or Singapore, say)
• The liabilities side of the global bank could in the United States
• What of the European headquarters? Where does it fit in the picture?
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Diversified loan portfolio from region k
Regions
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Figure 23. Global and regional banks
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Bruno and Shin (2014)
• Demand for dollar credit in regions from corporate borrowers
• Credit risk follows Vasicek (2002), many-borrower extension of Merton(1974)
• Risk-neutral, price taking banks in each region; credit supply determinedby regional bank leverage
• Risk-neutral, price taking global bank with access to US dollar moneymarket funds
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Closed Form Solution
Total privatecredit
=Aggregate bank capital (regional + global)
1− spread× regional bankdebt ratio
× global bankdebt ratio
Total cross-border lending
=Global and weighted regional bank capital
1− spread× regional bankdebt ratio
× global bankdebt ratio
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Exchange rates and leverage
• Depreciation of US dollar constitutes a loosening of global financialconditions
— US dollar depreciation strengthens local borrowers’ balance sheets— Creates slack in lending capacity of local banks— Creates slack in global bank lending capacity— Expansion of lending; “excess elasticity” (Borio and Disyatat (2011))
• US monetary policy is global factor determining financial conditionsworldwide
Empirical evidence in Gourinchas and Obstfeld (2012), Rey (2013), Miranda-Aggripino and Rey (2013)
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Bruno, Kim and Shin (2014)• Panel VAR exercise— 1995 - 2007— US GDP, Fed Funds rate, global bank leverage, VIX, bank capitalflows, nominal exchange rate
— US broker dealer sector leverage as proxy for global bank leverage
• Sample of 46 countries (Claessens, van Horen, Gurcanlar and Mercado(2008)): Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Bulgaria,Canada, Chile, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Egypt, Estonia,Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Indonesia, Ireland,Israel, Italy, Japan, Latvia, Lithuania, Malaysia, Malta, Mexico,Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Slovakia,Slovenia, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Thailand, Turkey,Ukraine, United Kingdom and Uruguay.
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Empirical Counterparts
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Impulse Responses to FFR Shocks
Figure 30
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Breaking free from Triple Coincidence
• BIS tradition of consolidated statistics— Identifying the decision maker— Modified suitably; ownership not always same as decision makingboundary (e.g. Santander)
• Balance of payments statistics under the microscope— When is the national income boundary the right one for analysis?
• Global financial system needs new boundaries of analysis