A growing literature stresses the importance of the “global financial cycle”, a common global movement in asset prices and credit conditions, for emerging market economies (EMEs). It is argued that one of the key drivers of this global cycle is monetary policy in the U.S., which is...

Global liquidity has become a key focus of international policy debates, yet the term continues to be used in a variety of ways. This lack of precision can lead to potentially undesirable policy responses. In this feature, we attempt to clarify the concept of global liquidity, its measurement...

The COVID-19 pandemic has induced chaos and turbulence in financial markets. The ongoing discussions and expectations for the future are quite bleak. In this study, we analyze the current status of the deterioration in foreign exchange markets by comparing it with the turbulence seen in the...