Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- The practice of macroprudential policy -- Preliminaries -- The design of macroprudential policy -- The institutions of macroprudential policy -- The instruments of macroprudential policy -- The conduct of macroprudential policy -- The theory of macroprudential...

The financial market crisis of 2008/2009 triggered efforts at re-regulation at all political levels, national, European, and international. Reform demands had been radical and comprehensive but effective regulatory change was halting, and then in summer 2011 the related connected sovereign debt...