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Multi-agency financial stability committees (FSCs) have grown dramatically since the global financial crisis. However, most cannot direct actions or recommend to other agencies that they take actions, and most would influence policy actions only through convening and discussing risks. We...
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ESM with the hosting of the ESRB in the medium term. The novel proposal aims at strengthening the macro-prudential …
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Increases in firm default risk raise the default probability of banks while decreasing output and inflation in US data. To rationalize the empirical evidence, we analyse firm risk shocks in a New Keynesian model where entrepreneurs and banks engage in a loan contract and both are subject to...
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Several studies have analyzed the trade and output effects of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) between the United States and the European Union, but our paper is the first attempt to study its welfare effects. We measure the welfare effect of TTIP as the percentage of...
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The Euro Area is characterized by little variation in unemployment and strongly procyclical labor productivity. We capture both characteristics in a New Keynesian business cycle model with labor search frictions, where labor can vary along three margins: employment, hours, and effort. We...
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The development of macroprudential policy tools has been one of the most significant changes in banking regulation in … countries implemented country-specific macroprudential policies. …
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We propose an algorithm to model contagion in the interbank market via what we term the credit quality channel. In existing models on contagion via interbank credit, external shocks to banks often spread to other banks only in case of a default. In contrast, shocks are transmitted via asset...
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In this paper, we study the optimal mix of monetary and macroprudential policies in an estimated two-country model of … the euro area. The model includes real, nominal and financial frictions, and hence both monetary and macroprudential … policy can play a role. We find that the introduction of a macroprudential rule would help in reducing macroeconomic …
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We explore how changes in capital-based macroprudential regulation affect theexposure of national banking sectors to … ameasure of macroprudential policy based on theMacroprudential Policy EvaluationDatabaseand estimate responses to … finding suggests that an unsystematic capital-based macro-prudential policy tightening increases banks’ exposure to domestic …
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We examine the fiscal footprint of macroprudential policy in euro area countries arising through the bond market … in macroprudential capital regulation. Our findings suggest a dichotomy between country groups. In peripheral countries …, the cyclically adjusted primary balance ratio deteriorates after a restrictive capital-based macroprudential policy shock …
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