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This paper examines the macroprudential roles of bank capital regulation and monetary policy in a Dynamic Stochastic … toolkit. Following credit shocks, countercyclical bank capital regulation is more effective than monetary policy in promoting … financial, price and overall macroeconomic stability. For supply shocks, macroprudential regulation combined with a strong …
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We study the macroprudential roles of bank capital regulation and monetary policy in a borrowing cost channel model …, countercyclical regulation is more effective than monetary policy in promoting price, financial and macroeconomic stability. For … supply shocks, combining macroprudential regulation with a stronger anti-inflationary policy stance is optimal. The findings …
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While conventional monetary policy maintains its role in counteracting inflation, there are doubts that it is sufficient to guard against the risks of financial instability. It has been debated whether monetary policy should lean against the wind, i.e., if central banks should also respond to...
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We provide a micro-empirical link between the large literature on credit and house prices and the burgeoning literature on macroprudential policy. Using loan-level data on Irish mortgages originated between 2003 and 2010, we construct a measure of credit availability which varies at the borrower...
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The frequencies at which prices and wages are adjusted, interpreted as price and wage flexibility, are key elements in workhorse models used for policy analysis. Yet, there is little evidence regarding the relationship between these two sources of nominal rigidities. Using two large and highly...
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Monetary policy leaves a fiscal footprint. In some circumstances, relieving the fiscal burden becomes the main goal of policy, and inflation control is subordinate. This article notes that the same is true of macroprudential policy, and it characterizes the size and sign of its fiscal footprint,...
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We study the impact of macroprudential capital buffers on banking groups' lending and risk-taking decisions, also investigating implications for internal capital markets. For identification, we exploit heterogeneity in buffers applied to other systemically important institutions, using...
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We integrate banks and the coexistence of bank and bond financing into an otherwise standard New Keynesian framework. There are two policy-makers: a central banker, who can decide on short-term nominal interest rates, and a macroprudential policy-maker, who can vary aggregate capital...
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We examine the social and agent-specific welfare effects of monetary and macroprudential policy in a four-agent estimated macroeconomic model, consisting of ''banked simple house- holds', underbanked simple households', 'firm owners', and 'bank owners'. Optimal capital requirement and loan loss...
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This paper reviews the cost-benefit analysis, or “regulatory impact analysis” (RIA), in US bank regulators’ risk-based capital (RBC) rule proposals. We review the principles of cost-benefit analysis and its application by US bank regulators. We provide a brief background on RBC rules and...
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