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Climate transition risk in the banking sector : what can prudential regulation do?

Grill, Michael; Popescu, Alexandra; Rancoita, Elena - 2024

paper, by means of a DSGE model including heterogeneous firms and banks, financial frictions and prudential regulation … increases the volatility of lending and output. We further show that relying on microprudential regulation alone would not be … microprudential regulation, leads to a Pareto improvement. …

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Caution: do not cross! : capital buffers and lending in Covid-19 times

Couaillier, Cyril; Lo Duca, Marco; Reghezza, Alessio; … - 2022

While regulatory capital buffers are expected to be drawn to absorb losses and meet credit demand during crises, this paper shows that banks were unwilling to do so during the pandemic. To the contrary, banks engaged in forms of pro-cyclical behaviour to preserve capital ratios. By employing...

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Designing a macroprudential capital buffer for climate-related risks

Bartsch, Florian; Busies, Iulia; Emambakhsh, Tina; … - 2024

Amid the growing financial vulnerabilities posed by climate change, we investigate macroprudential capital buffers to mitigate systemic risks and increase the resilience of the banking sector. Leveraging granular data and state-of-the-art stress testing methods, we quantify potential bank losses...

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Cooperation in international banking supervision

Holthausen, Cornelia; Rønde, Thomas - 2004

This paper analyzes cooperation between sovereign national authorities in the supervision and regulation of a … multinational bank. We take a political economy approach to regulation and assume that supervisors maximize the welfare of their own … the countries are perfectly aligned, Þrst best closure regulation cannot be implemented; (2) the more aligned the …

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Whatever it takes to save the planet? : central banks and unconventional green policy

Ferrari, Alessandro; Landi, Valerio Nispi - 2020

We study the effects of a temporary Green QE, defined as a policy that temporarily tilts the central bank's balance sheet toward green bonds, i.e. bonds issued by firms in non-polluting sectors. To this purpose, we merge a standard DSGE framework with an environmental model. In our model,...

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On secular stagnation and low interest rates : demography matters

Ferrero, Giuseppe; Groß, Marco; Neri, Stefano - 2017

Nominal and real interest rates in advanced economies have been decreasing since the mid-1980s and reached historical low levels in the aftermath of the global financial crisis. Understanding why interest rates have fallen is essential for both monetary policy and financial stability. This paper...

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Global growth on life support? : the contributions of fiscal and monetary policy since the global financial crisis

Baumann, Ursel; Lodge, David; Miescu, Mirela S. - 2019

This paper compares the role of monetary and fiscal policy shocks in advanced and emerging economies. Using a model with a hierarchical structure we capture the variability of GDP response to policy shocks both between and within the groups of advanced and emerging countries. Our results provide...

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Targeting financial stability : macroprudential or monetary policy?

Aikman, David; Giese, Julia; Kapadia, Sujit; McLeay, Michael - 2019

This paper explores monetary-macroprudential policy interactions in a simple, calibrated New Keynesian model incorporating the possibility of a credit boom precipitating a financial crisis and a loss function reflecting financial stability considerations. Deploying the countercyclical capital...

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The global capital flows cycle : structural drivers and transmission channels

Habib, Maurizio Michael; Venditti, Fabrizio - 2019

In this paper, we study the effects of structural shocks that influence global risk - the main factor behind a "global capital flows cycle" - and how risk, in turn, is transmitted to capital flows. Our results show that not all the risk shocks driving the global financial cycle have the same...

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The fundamentals of safe assets

Habib, Maurizio Michael; Stracca, Livio; Venditti, Fabrizio - 2020

We study what makes government bonds a safe asset. Building on a sample of monthly changes in government bond yields in 40 advanced and emerging countries, we analyse the sensitivity of yields to country specific fundamentals interacted with changes in global risk (VIX). We find that inertia...

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