"missed the forest for the trees". As a result, the need for macroprudential aspects of regulation emerged, which has recently … macroprudential regulation in creating stable, yet effcient financial systems. At the same time, I emphasize the importance of … regulation did not take the "big picture" of the system suffciently into account and, subsequently, financial supervision mainly …

This occasional paper describes how the financial stability and macroprudential policy functions are organised at the … ECB. Financial stability has been a key policy function of the ECB since its inception. Macroprudential policy tasks were … later conferred on the ECB by the Single Supervisory Mechanism (SSM) Regulation. The paper describes the ECB …

together, these reforms are critical to making countercyclical financial regulation work and creating a more stable and …The 2008 financial crisis exposed a longstanding problem in financial regulation: traditional regulatory strategies … regulation was a key driver of the housing bubble in the mid-2000s and the massive credit crunch that followed. To combat this …