FINANCIAL SYSTEM STABILITY VS. SOCIAL POLICY

Monitoring Financial System Stability

Financial Stability, Growth and Macroprudential Policy∗

Many emerging market economies have used macroprudential policy to mitigate the risk of financial crises and the resulting output losses. However, macroprudential policy may reduce economic growth in good times. This paper introduces endogenous growth into a small open economy model with occasionally binding collateral constraints in order to study the impact of macroprudential policy on financ...

Banking Concentration, Financial Stability and Public Policy

Although widespread industry consolidation over recent decades has resulted in a decline in the number of smaller banks, there has been little overall increase in various indicators of concentration. Technological and regulatory change suggest that ongoing consolidation will continue to reduce the number of smaller banks, and that large multinational banks will play an increasing role in domest...

Debt, Financial Stability, and Public Policy

Most major types of debt have grown rapidly in recent years. The most publicized aspect of the overall growth in debt has been the unprecedented size of federal government budget deficits. But debt of households and businesses has also grown rapidly, and the debt of developing countries has risen so much that exceptional efforts by international lending agencies, creditors in developed countrie...

The Optimal Monetary Policy Instrument , Inflation vs . Asset Price Targeting , and Financial Stability ∗

This paper assesses the choice of policy instruments for crisis management and prevention and whether Central Banks should target consumer and asset prices to maintain financial stability. Our results suggest that the interest rate is preferable to the money supply instrument because in times of financial distress the Central Bank automatically satisfies the increased demand for money, and that...