We document the effect on Chinese firms of the Shanghai (Shenzhen)-Hong Kong Stock Connect. The Connect was an important capital account liberalization introduced in the mid-2010s. It created a channel for cross-border equity investments into a selected set of Chinese stocks while China's...

We construct new measures of uncertainty about Federal Reserve policy actions and their consequences - monetary policy uncertainty (MPU) indexes. We show that, under a variety of VAR identification schemes, positive shocks to uncertainty about monetary policy robustly raise credit spreads and...

Existing literature finds that U.S. monetary policy has powerful spillover effects on the Global Financial Cycle (GFC). We examine how important U.S. monetary policy shocks are relative to others in an estimation framework that allows for simultaneous identification of multiple shocks without...