Rules, Discretion, and Macro-Prudential Policy

March 8, 2013

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Itai Agur, and Sunil Sharma. Rules, Discretion, and Macro-Prudential Policy, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2013) accessed December 23, 2024

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Summary

The paper examines the implementation of macro-prudential policy. Given the coordination, flow of information, analysis, and communication required, macro-prudential frameworks will have weaknesses that make it hard to implement policy. And dealing with the political economy is also likely to be challenging. But limiting discretion through the formulation of macro-prudential rules is complicated by the difficulties in detecting and measuring systemic risk. The paper suggests that oversight is best served by having a strong baseline regulatory regime on which a time-varying macro-prudential policy can be added as conditions warrant and permit.

Subject: Asset and liability management, Banking, Commercial banks, Financial crises, Financial institutions, Financial sector policy and analysis, Liquidity, Systemic risk, Systemic risk assessment

Keywords: Bank, Bank regulator, Central bank, Central bank leadership, Commercial banks, Financial stability, Global, Input consist, Liquid asset, Liquidity, Macro-prudential policy, Market, Market liquidity, Markets regulator, Regulation, Regulator, Repo market, Systemic risk, Systemic risk assessment, WP

Publication Details

Pages:

32
Volume:

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Series:

Working Paper No. 2013/065
Stock No:

WPIEA2013065
ISBN:

9781475546699
ISSN:

1018-5941

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