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Monetary policy under financial turbulence
The financial crisis that started in 2007 brought the global economy to the brink, and in many respects it is still unfolding, especially in Europe. While a fierce debate continues on how to understand and deal with the crisis, a consensus is emerging with regard to the originating shocks, the mechanisms ...
Financial stability, monetary policy, and Central Banking
The financial developments of the last decade have had a large impact on the range of risk diversification contracts available to investors. Based on these complex instruments, the investment possibility frontier was shifted outward and increasingly intricate networks were created. At the same time, ...
Prociclicidad del crédito bancario en Chile: rol de la banca extranjera y las crisis financieras
La preocupación sobre el grado de prociclicidad del crédito bancario data desde hace un largo tiempo en la literatura, en particular cuando se lo vincula a las causas de crisis financieras. Bebczuk et al. (2011), por ejemplo, enfatizan que los sistemas financieros altamente procíclicos se caracterizan ...
Heterodox central banking
In response to the current global crisis the U.S. Federal Reserve and other central banks around the world have implemented diverse policy measures including purchasing a wide range of securities lending to financial institutions intervening in foreign exchange markets and paying interest on reserves. ...
Macroprudential policy: promise and challenges
The developments that led to the 2008 global financial crisis raised a new awareness amongst central banks and financial regulators in advanced economies about the need to approach financial regulation and surveillance from a macroeconomic (i.e. systemic) and prudential (i.e. pre-emptive) perspective. ...
Modeling a housing and mortgage crisis
The current crisis has centered on borrower defaults on mortgages and the associated effects on banks’ own credit standing (and in several cases their own default), which in turn led to tightened conditions for lending to new (mortgage) borrowers. Any model that does not incorporate all or most of ...
Movilidad de capitales y política monetaria: consideraciones generales
Este artículo es una mirada a la conferencia XV del Banco Central de Chile 'Movilidad de Capitales y Política Monetaria'. En su conjunto, los estudios presentados en ella tratan diversos aspectos de las causas, consecuencias y desafíos de política, relacionados con los ciclos de auge y caída que han ...
Defining finacial stability and establishing a framework to safeguard it
The ongoing global financial crisis has been a rude awakening that the current framework for safeguarding financial stability is neither reliable nor effective. The threats to global economic stability caused by the dysfunction of credit and money markets and the weakening of the global banking system ...
Monetary policy thorugh asset markets: lessons from unconventional measures and implications for an integrated world
The global financial crisis of 2008 and its aftermath have brought many new challenges for the world’s central banks. These new challenges have in turn resulted in bold experimentation—not simply particularly vigorous use of traditional policy tools but also the use of new tools or if not entirely new ...
Recessions and financial disruptions in emerging markets: a bird's eye view
The global financial crisis of 2008–09 led to massive interruptions in cross-border financial and trade flows. As a result of the crisis virtually all of the advanced economies and many emerging market countries experienced recessions over the past two years. These recessions coincided with various ...