US net capital inflows drive the international synchronization of house price growth. An increase (decrease) in US net capital inflows improves (tightens) US dollar funding conditions for non-US global banks, leading them to increase (decrease) foreign lending to third-party borrowing countries....

This feature argues that a combination of factors caused the surprising US dollar appreciation in the second half of 2008. Both the global flight to safety into US Treasury bills and the reversal of carry trades amidst the crisis were sources of dollar strength. In addition, the surge in dollar...

This working paper was written by Yuewen Tang (Hong Kong Monetary Authority) and Alfred Wong (Hong Kong Institute for Monetary and Financial Research).We analyse dollar funding stress experienced by advanced and emerging market economies through studying the behaviour of their cross-currency...