Debt and Credit, Growth and Crises 18-19 June 2012, Banco de Espana Madrid
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On the International Transmission of Shocks: Micro-Evidence from Mutual Fund Portfolios
Claudio Raddatz and Sergio Schmukler
Discussion by Neeltje van Horen
Debt and Credit, Growth and Crises
18-19 June 2012, Banco de Espana Madrid
Aim of paperAim of paper
Main question: How do mutual fund investors and managers behave?
Do they transmit shocks across countries?
Main findingsMain findings Based on fund-level data from 1,261 int’l equity and bond funds
domiciled in 28 countries and investing in 124 countries Volatility of mutual fund investment in a country driven by:
Injections/redemptions (investors) Fund return (+) Country of origin return (+) Global financial crisis (-)
Changes in country weights (managers) Relative return (+) Country in crisis (-)
Changes in cash (managers) Fund return (-) Country in crisis/global crisis (+)
Main findingsMain findings
Conclusion: Capital flows from mutual funds are pro-cyclical and
transmit shocks across countries
Overall assessmentOverall assessment
Very timely and interesting topic with important policy implications
Important extension to the literature: very little research on how international investors behave (during crises)
Very nice dataset and interesting findings Overall: great paper → forthcoming JIE
What about the discussion?What about the discussion?
Ideas for future researchIdeas for future research
Unique micro-level dataUnique micro-level data
Assets large number of mutual funds Can extract injections/redemptions (investor choice)
Country weights in portfolios (managers choice) 1996-Nov 2010 (monthly)
Crises in general (Asia, Russia, Brazil) Global financial crisis in particular
Many funds investing in same countries/region
Level of disaggregation allows for neat identification
Recent findings cross-border banking literatureRecent findings cross-border banking literature
Bank funding shocks had significant negative impact on cross-border bank lending in global financial crisisCetorelli & Goldberg (2011); Paravisini, Rappoport, Schnabl & Wolfenzon (2012); De Haas & Van Horen (2012);
During crises banks tend to increase proportion of domestic lendingGianetti & Laeven (2011)
There is no generalized run for the exit. Banks reallocate cross-border portfolios towards “close” countriesDe Haas & Van Horen (2011)
Findings on int’l MF flows and crises Findings on int’l MF flows and crises
Investors withdraw from int’l MF during market downturns/ crisesKaminsky, Lyons & Schmukler (2001); Raddatz & Schukler (2012)
Movements in investor flows force reallocations in EM fundsJotikasthira, Lundblad & Ramdorai (2012)
MF investors show herding behavior but not differently during crisisBorensztein & Gelos (2003)
International MF act as a transmission channel during crises because of relative performance concernsBroner, Gelos & Reinhart (2006)
Possible future researchPossible future research
Increase in home bias during crises? How are international portfolios reallocated during
crises?
Increase in home bias?Increase in home bias?
Evidence of strong home bias in MF investmentsChan, Covrig & Ng (2005), Hau & Rey (2008)
Does this change during a crisis? In banking yes. Arguments:
Domestic loans more likely bailed out/ support can come with strings attached
Harder to meet capital requirements, so tendency to reduce riskier (= foreign) assets
Monitoring and screening foreign loans more difficult But what about MF investments?
Increase in home bias?Increase in home bias?
Different arguments can be made: Diversification benefits higher during times or stress Factors driving equity home bias in normal times (Chan,
Covrig & Ng, 2005) might become stronger during crisis Familiarity
High information cost stronger impediment when risk of default is larger
Stock market development Ability to quickly liquidate without large price effects and low
transactions costs matters more when markets are volatile
Increase in home bias?Increase in home bias?
Ultimately is empirical question which can be answered with these data when adding domestic MF to the dataset
Relative withdrawal investors from international compared to domestic MF
Since MF domiciled in various countries can control for flight to quality effect
Reallocation managers in global funds towards domestic market
How are portfolios reallocated?How are portfolios reallocated?
Managers actively adjust country weights over time (incl. in reaction to crises)Broner, Gelos, Reinhart (2006); Raddatz & Schmukler (2012); Jotikasthira, Lundblad & Ramadorai (2012)
Therefore MF play role in propagation of shocks across borders
Important to understand as impact on stability of capital flows.
Scope for further research
How are portfolios reallocated?How are portfolios reallocated?
Revisit herding question (Borenzstein & Gelos, 2003): BG construct measure of herding based on observed changes
in flows in/out of country by MFs Herding same in tranquil and crisis times
But cannot/do not differentiate between herding among investors and managers
Interesting to isolate the two Investor decisions force reallocations of portfolios
(Jotikasthira, Lundblad & Ramadorai, 2012)
How are portfolios reallocated?How are portfolios reallocated?
With these data this is possible Do investors herd? Do managers herd? To what extent do
they reinforce each other? Tranquil vs crisis times? Especially of interest (to me) is behavior of managers given
a funding shock (global crisis) Banks: no evidence herding behavior MF manager: ?
Relative performance matters incentive follow herd Yes/no herding, which countries?
More liquid markets (Jotikasthira, Lundblad & Ramadorai, 2012)
But what else?
Data with lot of potentialData with lot of potential
Jumping through some hoops (data collection) and Jumping through some hoops (data collection) and with some creativity a lot can be accomplished!with some creativity a lot can be accomplished!
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