This paper revisits the definition of monetary policy autonomy and develops a new method to identify autonomy regimes for a set of countries. Compared to the traditional identification approach, which only focuses on correlations among domestic and foreign interest rates, monetary policy...

As global financial integration deepens, shocks from a local market can generate global spillover effects more easily. Historical episodes, such as the 2008 financial crisis and the COVID-19 pandemic show that the connectedness of financial markets is closely related to global systemic risks....

We incorporate terms-of-trade externality into a small open economy featuring an incomplete market, sterilized intervention, and capital controls as in Chang et al. (2015), and we highlight the central banks reaction to exchange rate movement. Our calibrated model using data from China shows...