Template-Type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0
Author-Name: Alvaro Fernandez-Gallardo
Author-Name-First: Alvaro
Author-Name-Last: Fernandez-Gallardo
Author-Name: Ivan Paya
Author-Name-First: Ivan
Author-Name-Last: Paya
Title: Macroprudential Policy in the Euro Area
Abstract: It is now widely accepted that monetary authorities should have a mandate to<br/>safeguard financial stability and that macroprudential policies should be an integral part of such a mandate. However, our understanding of the effectiveness of macroprudential policies and their impact on monetary policy target variables and, more broadly, on macroeconomic outcomes, is still limited. This paper addresses that gap and examines the development and impact of macroprudential policies in the euro area. The contribution of the paper is twofold. First, we construct a novel index that captures the stance of the macroprudential policy and we highlight its main stylised facts since the inception of the euro in 1999. Second, we employ a combination of a narrative approach and a structural VAR method to identify both unanticipated and anticipated exogenous variations in macroprudential policies. Our results show<br/>that unanticipated or surprise shocks and anticipated or news macroprudential policy shocks exhibit differentiated effects on macroeconomic variables and that they both contribute over the medium term to safeguard financial stability. We also nd significant linkages between monetary and macroprudential policies over a sample period that includes events such as the great financial crisis and the sovereign debt crisis.
Creation-Date: 2020
File-URL: http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/media/lancaster-university/content-assets/documents/lums/economics/working-papers/LancasterWP2020_020.pdf
File-Format: application/pdf
Number: 307121127
Classification-JEL: E58, E61
Keywords: macroprudential policy, financial stability, euro area, monetary policy
Handle: RePEc:lan:wpaper:307121127