Responsibility of Central Banks for Stability in Financial Markets
June 1, 2003
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Summary
What is the role of central banks in ensuring financial stability? This paper addresses this controversial subject, in part by drawing on the experiences in Europe, Japan, and the United States, and by examining four questions. What is meant by financial stability? Do central banks have a natural role in ensuring financial stability? What does a central bank need to execute this role effectively? How far have central banks actually gone in safeguarding financial stability? The experience drawn on in the paper suggest that central banks: have a natural role to play; at times may require supervisory information to execute this natural role; and have incurred risks to their balance sheets to ensure financial stability.
Subject: Bank supervision, Banking, Central bank mandate, Central banks, Financial crises, Financial regulation and supervision, Financial sector policy and analysis, Financial sector stability, Monetary base, Money
Keywords: Bank supervision, banking policy view, banking supervision, Central bank mandate, central bank money, central banking, conceived central bank, ECB regulation, ECB statute, Europe, financial crises management, Financial sector stability, financial stability, financial system, Global, market discipline, market stability, market surveillance, Monetary base, monetary policy, WP
Pages:
19
Volume:
2003
DOI:
Issue:
121
Series:
Working Paper No. 2003/121
Stock No:
WPIEA1212003
ISBN:
9781451854404
ISSN:
1018-5941
