The financial crisis of 2008 is probably the single most important economic event in post-war history. Macroprudential policy is the response to that crisis - a determined attempt to stabilize the financial system. This book explains why it is necessary, who will be responsible for executing...

Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- The practice of macroprudential policy -- Preliminaries -- The design of macroprudential policy -- The institutions of macroprudential policy -- The instruments of macroprudential policy -- The conduct of macroprudential policy -- The theory of macroprudential...