Monetary and Macroprudential Policies
Monetary and Macroprudential Policies
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DOI:
10.1057/imfer.2012.10
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发表时间:
2012-06
影响因子:
4.3
通讯作者:
Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas;M. Kose;S. Claessens
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作者:
Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas;M. Kose;S. Claessens
authorities. Multiple objectives require multiple instruments, as was emphasized by Olivier Blanchard in the conclusions of the excellent March 7–8, 2011 IMF conference on Macro and Growth Policies in the Wake of the Crisis (Blanchard and others, 2012). But what instruments should monetary and other authorities use to achieve these macroprudential objectives? How should they be deployed alongside traditional interest rate policy? What are the implications of ongoing institutional reforms on systemic risk and the effectiveness of traditional and macroprudential policies? Which sources of risk require careful monitoring and policy response? Which specific markets can be a source of financial instability and through which channels? How does the degree of uncertainty in the state of the economy or in the degree of systemic risk affect the conduct of these policies? The 12th Jacques Polak Annual Research Conference of the IMF, which took place at the IMF headquarters in Washington DC on November 10–11, 2011, addressed some of these issues. The topic was “Monetary and Macroprudential Policies.” This special issue of the IMF Economic Review brings to you some of the key academic articles behind the presentations at that conference. As usual, all of these papers went through a rigorous refereeing process, and benefited from extensive feedback provided by the discussants, conference participants, members of the Editorial Board, and conference organization committee members. The topic is vast, and our knowledge is still very limited. A workhorse model allowing us to systematically analyze the relationships between monetary and macroprudential policies and quantify the relevant trade-offs is still eluding us. Perhaps this is in the nature of things. Confronted with a set of new and challenging questions, the first steps consist in establishing the relevant facts and developing simple models to build our intuition, and then in moving to more ambitious modeling exercises. The 2011 Mundell-Fleming lecture, by Professor Hyun Song Shin (Princeton), beautifully illustrates how much can be learned by proceeding in this way.“Global Banking Glut and Loan Risk Premium” provides a fascinating account of the role global banks, especially European ones, played in intermediating US dollar funds and influencing global credit conditions. The first part of his lecture carefully pieces together evidence from BIS banking statistics and US sources to illustrate the role of global banks in setting overall credit conditions. The second part of the lecture borrows from the literature on credit risk to build a simple and elegant model of risks arising from direct and intermediated credit. In the model, global banks adjust their leverage through the cycle, always expanding their balance sheet to the maximum capacity. In good times, financial institutions lend more by borrowing more, supplying increasingly cheap credit to the economy. This “global banking glut” may have been more important than the “global saving glut” for global financial (in) stability, and Professor Shin makes links between advanced countries affected by the financial crisis and their banks’ participation in this intermediating banking glut. From a policy perspective, Professor Shin’s lecture reminds us of the