Drawing on a recent survey of emerging market economy central banks, this note highlights the different channels through which the influence of macroprudential measures can extend beyond national borders, and discusses the need and scope for international cooperation of macroprudential...

This note discusses key issues regarding communication of macroprudential frameworks and draws on a recent survey of emerging market economy central banks to highlight factors that are of particular relevance to emerging market economies.Full Publication: 'http://ssrn.com/abstract=3101163'...

Using an international sample of 95 banks from 21 European and North American countries spanning from 2008 to 2014, this paper assesses the effectiveness of a large set of general and housing macro-prudential policies in controlling banks' systemic importance and risk-taking incentives....

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...

Despite the progress made on the empirical front, normative analyses are still lacking when it comes to foreign currency intermediation (partial dollarization of the domestic banking system) and the ways to address its systemic risks implications. In this paper, we make a comprehensive analysis...

The aim of this paper is to investigate whether macroprudential policy instru-ments can influence the credit growth rate and hence financial stability. We use a fixed effects panel regression model to test the following hypothesis for six euro area econo-mies (Austria, Finland, Germany, Italy,...

A BMW model is augmented with a credit market affected by banks' balance sheet and used to assess the dynamic performance of an economy in the face of demand and financial shocks under different assumptions about the interactions between monetary and macroprudential policy. We show that the...

In 2021, macroprudential authorities of the European Union (EU) and European Economic Area (EEA) countries adopted emergency macroprudential policy relaxation measures to address the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic crisis. It was the first widespread and almost simultaneous use of...