Emerging markets aren't really in charge of their own rates anymore: study
Domestic monetary policy has been rendered impotent thanks to financial globalisation
London
EMERGING market central banks are shackled to their US counterparts, with local long-term interest rates held hostage to the Federal Reserve and the monetary policies of other advanced economies.
That's the striking picture painted, in not so many words, by a new Bank for International Settlements (BIS) paper. The research throws into sharp relief how domestic monetary policy in a clutch of emerging markets has been rendered effectively impotent thanks to financial globalisation.
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