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capital regulation, (iii) they mainly operate through their cyclical component, ensuring that long-run dividend payouts remain …
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Financial supervision focuses on the aggregate (macroprudential) in addition to the individual (microprudential). But an agreed framework for measuring and addressing financial imbalances is lacking. We propose a holistic approach for the financial system as a whole, beyond banking. Building on...
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Using household survey data, we document evidence of a loosening of credit standards in Euro area countries that experienced a property price boom-and-bust cycle. Borrowers in these countries exhibited significantly higher loan-to-value (LTV) and loan-to-income (LTI) ratios in the run up to the...
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Euro area governments have committed to break the doom loop between bank risk and sovereign risk. But policymakers have not reached consensus on whether and how to reform the regulatory treatment of banks' sovereign exposures. To inform policy discussions, this paper simulates portfolio...
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Do politics matter for macroprudential policy? I show that changes to macroprudential regulation exhibit a predictable …
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This paper studies leverage regulation and monetary policy when equity investors and/or creditors have distorted … beliefs relative to a planner. We characterize how the optimal leverage regulation responds to arbitrary changes in investors …' and creditors' beliefs and relate our results to practical scenarios. We show that the optimal regulation depends on the …
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Macroprudential policy is a relatively new policy field. Its goal is to preserve financial stability and to prevent the build-up of systemic risk that may have adverse effects for the functioning of the financial system and for the real economy. New institutions have been tasked with the...
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The finalization of the European Banking Union (EBU) requires the completion of the third pillar, the system of depositor protection. However, whereas the two first pillars, while set-ting common standards, allow for elements of decentralization and institutional diversity, some authors claim...
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