Author : International Monetary Fund. Monetary and Capital Markets Department,International Monetary Fund. Research Dept.
Publisher : International Monetary Fund
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-29
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781498339506
The Interaction of Monetary and Macroprudential Policies by International Monetary Fund. Monetary and Capital Markets Department,International Monetary Fund. Research Dept. Pdf
The recent crisis showed that price stability does not guarantee macroeconomic stability. In several countries, dangerous financial imbalances developed under low inflation and small output gaps. To ensure macroeconomic stability, policy has to include financial stability as an additional objective. But a new objective demands new tools: macroprudential tools that can target specific sources of financial imbalances (something monetary policy is not well suited to do). Effective macroprudential policies (which include a range of constraints on leverage and the composition of balance sheets) could then contain risks ex ante and help build buffers to absorb shocks ex post.