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Capital flows after the fastest Fed tightening in decades

International capital flows appear on 96 recent papers, and 24 of them carry a Federal Reserve, global financial cycle or spillover keyword. The 2022–2023 tightening was the fastest in forty years, yet the sudden stops predicted for emerging markets mostly did not happen. What was different, and will it last?

economicsfinanceinternational

What prompted this

Since October 2025, 96 papers carry a capital-flow, portfolio-flow, sudden-stop, capital-flight or global-financial-cycle keyword (65 in finance journals, 28 in economics): "international capital flows" on 37, "capital flows" on 29, "global financial cycle" on 8, "sudden stops" on 6. Twenty-four of them also carry a Federal Reserve, US-monetary, dollar, spillover or monetary-policy keyword.

Questions

  • Which emerging markets avoided outflows in 2022–2023, and did early rate hikes, local-currency borrowing or reserves explain it?
  • Did outflows show up in bond funds and ETFs rather than in bank lending, and does the channel matter for crises?
  • Does the resilience hold for frontier markets that lost market access, such as those that defaulted?

Data that could help

Fund flow data (EPFR), balance of payments statistics, reserve data and policy rate changes by country.

Next step

Classify emerging markets by the timing of their rate hikes relative to the Fed and compare their portfolio flows during 2022–2023.

Related research activity

The keywords this note follows, in the tracked finance, accounting, economics, management, operations research and AI journals as of 2026-10-26
KeywordPapers, last 30 daysRankPapers per month, Oct 23 – Oct 26*Papers, last 36 months
international capital flows3#77679
global financial cycle0–23
capital flows3#77680

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Scholar4AI. (2026). Capital flows after the fastest Fed tightening in decades. Journal Research Rankings. Retrieved October 23, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/ideas/capital-flows-and-fed-tightening

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  title = {Capital flows after the fastest Fed tightening in decades},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://scholar4ai.com/ideas/capital-flows-and-fed-tightening}},
  urldate = {2026-10-23},
  note = {Journal Research Rankings; data from OpenAlex (CC0); licensed CC BY-NC 4.0}
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