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International liquidity swaps: is the Chiang Mai Initiative pooling reserves efficiently?
Author(s) -
Kohlscheen E.,
Taylor M. P.
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
international journal of finance and economics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.505
H-Index - 39
eISSN - 1099-1158
pISSN - 1076-9307
DOI - 10.1002/ijfe.381
Subject(s) - market liquidity , swap (finance) , pooling , economics , interest rate swap , chiang mai , monetary economics , finance , artificial intelligence , socioeconomics , computer science
We analyse the network of bilateral liquidity swaps (BSAs) among the ASEAN+3 countries. We find that the network has taken the correlation of capital flows in the region into account, in the sense that countries with lower correlation of reserve growth have engaged in larger BSAs. All else equal, a decimal point increase in the correlation of international reserve growth decreases the size of a bilateral swap agreement between 18% and 27%. Moreover, we find that the approximately $ 60 bn of BSAs have had a limited impact, if any, on government bond spreads so far. Finally, we identify potential gains from inter‐regional BSAs. Copyright © 2008 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.