Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- Chapter 2 The Structural Context of Macroeconomic Policy Choice -- Chapter 3 Partisanship and Fiscal and Monetary Policy -- Chapter 4 Elections and Fiscal and Monetary Policy -- Chapter 5 Partisan Differences and Macroeconomic...

Do politics matter for macroprudential policy? I show that changes to macroprudential regulation exhibit a predictable electoral cycle in the run-up to 221 elections across 58 countries from 2000 through 2014. Policies restricting mortgages and consumer credit are systematically less likely to...