Ever since the European Central Bank presented its monetary policy strategy on the basis of two pillars "economic" and "monetary" analysis with the latter being used as a cross-check of the first it has been criticized for giving too much importance to monetary aggregates. Opponents argue these...

Against the backdrop of elevated model uncertainty in DSGE models with a detailed modeling of financial intermediaries, we investigate the performance of optimized macroprudential policy rules within and across models. Using three canonical banking DSGE models as a representative sample, we show...