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Will Macroprudential Policy Counteract Monetary Policy’s Effects on Financial Stability?

By Itai Agur, Maria Demertzis

December 29, 2015

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Itai Agur, and Maria Demertzis. Will Macroprudential Policy Counteract Monetary Policy’s Effects on Financial Stability?, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2015) accessed September 18, 2024
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Summary

How does monetary policy impact upon macroprudential regulation? This paper models monetary policy's transmission to bank risk taking, and its interaction with a regulator's optimization problem. The regulator uses its macroprudential tool, a leverage ratio, to maintain financial stability, while taking account of the impact on credit provision. A change in the monetary policy rate tilts the regulator's entire trade-off. We show that the regulator allows interest rate changes to partly "pass through" to bank soundness by not neutralizing the risk-taking channel of monetary policy. Thus, monetary policy affects financial stability, even in the presence of macroprudential regulation.

Subject: Bank soundness, Banking, Central bank policy rate, Financial crises, Financial sector policy and analysis, Financial sector stability, Financial services, Macroprudential policy

Keywords: Bank leverage, Bank regulator, Bank risk, Bank soundness, Central bank policy rate, Financial sector stability, Global, Macroprudential, Macroprudential policy, Monetary policy rate change, Risk choice, Risk profile, Supervision, Transmission, WP

Publication Details

  • Pages:

    23

  • Volume:

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  • DOI:

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  • Issue:

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  • Series:

    Working Paper No. 2015/283

  • Stock No:

    WPIEA2015283

  • ISBN:

    9781513545332

  • ISSN:

    1018-5941