A study on the dynamics of exchange rate volatility spillover network: Evidence from Central Asia

Exchange rate volatility interacts closely with capital market prices and have a huge impact on import-export trade and foreign investment in the real economy. This paper adopted the VAR-based spillover index approach to explore the exchange rate risk contagion among belt-road countries. By taking Central Asian countries as example, we find that the internal interaction is extremely weak among Central Asian currency markets while the Kyrgyz...