The Bernanke-Blinder closed economy model suggests that macroprudential policies aimed at bank lending will affect the domestic long-term interest rate. In an open economy, domestic shocks to long-term rates are likely to influence capital flows and the exchange rate. Currency movements feed...

We analyse how the effectiveness of price-based and quantity-based macroprudential measures vary by the level of financial development, using panel data for 37 advanced and emerging market economies over 1996–2011. First, we find that quantity-based measures effectively smooth the variations...

In this session, we shall have presentations on capital flows, on credit cycles and on policies in an oil-exporting economy. By way of introduction to how these topics are linked, I would like to underline the key role of the exchange rate and explain what Bruno and Shin (2015) have called the...