In this paper, we investigate the eect of U.S. unconventional monetary policy announce-
ments on sovereign bond yields, foreign exchange rates, and stock prices in 17 EMEs. Our
paper makes several empirical contributions to the literature. First, we use the method in
Rigobon (2003) to identify the impact of monetary policy shocks on EME asset prices in a
vector autoregressive model. We nd that the eect of U.S. monetary policy shocks is sig-
nicant, especially for local-currency sovereign yields, in many countries, but the magnitude
and the persistence of the eect varies tremendously across countries. Second, we propose
a panel-data model to investigate which country-specic variables drive the heterogeneity
in the average response of EME asset prices to U.S. monetary policy, and we assess the
quantitative importance of each country-specic variable. We nd that the deterioration of
a country's economic conditions signicantly increases its vulnerability to changes in U.S.
monetary policy, which we characterize using a set of nancial variables. Finally, we com-
pare the average eect of U.S. interest rates on EME asset prices implied by our model to
the eect observed around the days of unconventional monetary policy announcements since
2008. We nd that, except for Brazil and Singapore, the average observed eect is safely
within or below the condence intervals of the model-implied eects. This nding indicates
that while the Fed's unconventional policies have had an impact on the EMEs, this impact
has not necessarily been unusually dierent from the typical impact that changes in U.S.
In this paper, we investigate the eect of U.S. unconventional monetary policy announce-
ments on sovereign bond yields, foreign exchange rates, and stock prices in 17 EMEs. Our
paper makes several empirical contributions to the literature. First, we use the method in
Rigobon (2003) to identify the impact of monetary policy shocks on EME asset prices in a
vector autoregressive model. We nd that the eect of U.S. monetary policy shocks is sig-
nicant, especially for local-currency sovereign yields, in many countries, but the magnitude
and the persistence of the eect varies tremendously across countries. Second, we propose
a panel-data model to investigate which country-specic variables drive the heterogeneity
in the average response of EME asset prices to U.S. monetary policy, and we assess the
quantitative importance of each country-specic variable. We nd that the deterioration of
a country's economic conditions signicantly increases its vulnerability to changes in U.S.
monetary policy, which we characterize using a set of nancial variables. Finally, we com-
pare the average eect of U.S. interest rates on EME asset prices implied by our model to
the eect observed around the days of unconventional monetary policy announcements since
2008. We nd that, except for Brazil and Singapore, the average observed eect is safely
within or below the condence intervals of the model-implied eects. This nding indicates
that while the Fed's unconventional policies have had an impact on the EMEs, this impact
has not necessarily been unusually dierent from the typical impact that changes in U.S.
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