We explore the possible existence and behavior of hot money in six categories of disaggregated bilateral capital flows (equity inflows, equity outflows, bond inflows, bond outflows, banking credit inflows, and banking credit outflows) for 12 emerging markets vis-à-vis the U.S. from 1995 to 2012...

This paper investigates the relative importance of hot money in bank credit and portfolio flows from the US to 18 emerging markets over the period 1988-2012. We deploy state-space models à la Kalman filter to identify the unobserved hot money as the temporary component of each type of flow. The...

This research study investigates the influence of hot money in equity flows from the United States to twelve emerging-market (EM) countries on the local stock markets during January 1993 to December 2013, including both crisis and non-crisis periods. The study identifies de facto hot money as...