This paper investigates macroprudential policies and their role in containing systemic risk in China. It shows that China faces systemic risk in both the time (procyclicality) and cross-sectional (contagion) dimensions. The former is reflected as credit and asset price risks, while the latter is...

The systemic banking crises placed enormous pressure on national governments to intervene. The empirical literature is mute on what the optimal bailout program should look like to mitigate the negative consequence of government intervention in the banking sector. We document that, in general,...

The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) and the Bank of Korea (BoK) jointly organized a conference on macroprudential regulation and policy in Seoul, Korea, on 16-18 January 2011. The conference aimed to bring academics together with researchers at central banks and other public...

This paper introduces macroprudential policy using a static New Keynesian Macroeconomics model with financial frictions. We analyze two related questions: First, we show how the pro cyclicality of financial factors captured by the financial accelerator amplifies the transmission of supply and...

When financial regulators require banks to hold a higher ratio of equity capital to debt funding, banks incur short-term costs as they adjust their balance sheets and lose some of the advantages associated with their existing funding mix. They then seek to maintain post-tax income by, for...

The severity and longevity of the recession caused by the 2007 financial crisis has highlighted the lack of a reliable macro-based financial regulation framework. As a consequence, addressing the link between the stability of the financial system as a whole and the performance of the overall...

The financial crisis of 2008, like the pandemic Spanish flu 90 years prior, spanned the globe twice and caused substantial destruction. It also introduced an entirely new lexicon of economic and regulatory terminology, such as “contagion” and “systemic shock,” into the popular and...