This paper investigates macroprudential policy effects on bank systemic risk and the role of inflation targeting in … such effects. Using bank-level data for 45 countries comprising various monetary and exchange rate regimes, our regime … tightening of most macroprudential tools-including DSTI and LTV limits, and capital requirements-reduces bank systemic risk …

address the following questions. How are macroeconomic shocks transmitted to bank risk and other banking variables? What are … the sources of bank heterogeneity, and what explains differences in individual banks’ responses to macroeconomic shocks …? Our paper has two main findings: (i) Average bank risk declines, and average bank lending increases following expansionary …