Recent crises have clearly highlighted the importance of understanding macrofinancial linkages in order to mitigate the build-up of systemic risks to financial and macroeconomic stability, and sustainable economic growth. This note describes the role of macroprudential policy as an integral part...

In the aftermath of the global financial crisis, the Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey (CBRT) designed and adopted a policy mix where reserve requirements, an asymmetric interest rate corridor and a reserve options mechanism (ROM) were used alongside the policy rate to reduce the negative...

The Central Bank of Chile (CBC) has implemented broadly advanced transparency practices. This reflects the CBC's strong public commitment to transparency, which is anchored in the law and has been designated by the CBC as a strategic objective to fulfill its mandate. This policy has earned the...

Our note has two related, albeit separate, goals. First, we extend an interest rate policy rule by appending a financial variable to it. Our key assumption is that the relationship between that financial variable and output is uncertain. This is an important assumption because policymakers seek...

The note discusses the main features of Russia's current macroprudential policy framework. In particular, it describes the Central Bank of the Russian Federation's legal mandate to ensure the stable functioning of the financial markets, explains the interagency coordination between Russian...

This paper discusses the scope for international macroprudential policy coordination in a financially integrated world economy. It first reviews the transmission channels associated with, and the empirical evidence on, financial spillovers and spillbacks - which have both increased in magnitude...

Regulation, supervision, and oversight of central counterparties (CCPs) and central securities depositories (CSDs) in the euro area is evolving. Recent proposed amendments to the European Market Infrastructure Regulation (EMIR) are expected to further alter the landscape, as is the European...