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Monetary and Macroprudential Policy in an Estimated DSGE Model of the Euro Area

By Dominic Quint, Pau Rabanal

October 14, 2013

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Dominic Quint, and Pau Rabanal. Monetary and Macroprudential Policy in an Estimated DSGE Model of the Euro Area, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2013) accessed December 3, 2024
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Summary

In this paper, we study the optimal mix of monetary and macroprudential policies in an estimated two-country model of the euro area. The model includes real, nominal and financial frictions, and hence both monetary and macroprudential policy can play a role. We find that the introduction of a macroprudential rule would help in reducing macroeconomic volatility, improve welfare, and partially substitute for the lack of national monetary policies. Macroprudential policy would always increase the welfare of savers, but their effects on borrowers depend on the shock that hits the economy. In particular, macroprudential policy may entail welfare costs for borrowers under technology shocks, by increasing the countercyclical behavior of lending spreads.

Subject: Consumption, Credit, Financial sector policy and analysis, Housing, Inflation, Macroprudential policy, Money, National accounts, Prices

Keywords: Basel III, Consumption, Credit, Credit growth, Credit market, Depreciation rate, EMU, Financial Frictions, Housing, Housing stock, Inflation, Intermediate goods, Labor disutility coefficient, Macroprudential policy, Monetary Policy, Monetary policy rule, Monetary policy shock, Optimal monetary policy, Risk shock, Technology shock, Utility function, WP

Publication Details

  • Pages:

    60

  • Volume:

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  • DOI:

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  • Issue:

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  • Series:

    Working Paper No. 2013/209

  • Stock No:

    WPIEA2013209

  • ISBN:

    9781484333693

  • ISSN:

    1018-5941

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