This paper offers a positive analysis of the relationships between macro prudential policy, micro supervision and central banking, presenting two contributions. Starting from the review of the recent theoretical models, which take the issue of the central bank involvement in macro supervision,...

This paper offers a positive analysis of the relationships between central banking, macro prudential supervision and insurance, presenting three contributions. Starting from the review of the recent theoretical models, which directly or indirectly take the issue of the central bank involvement...

Sign-restricted Structural Vector Autoregressions (SVARs) are increasingly common. However, they usually result in a set of structural parameters that have very different implications in terms of impulse responses, elasticities, historical decomposition and forecast error variance decomposition...