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A Framework to Assess Vulnerabilities Arising from Household Indebtedness Using Microdata
Staff Discussion Paper 2012-3
Ramdane Djoudad
Rising levels of household indebtedness have created concerns about the vulnerabilities of households to adverse economic shocks and the impact on financial stability. To assess these risks, the author presents a formal stress-testing framework that uses microdata to simulate how various economic shocks affect the distribution of the debt-service ratio (DSR) for the household sector.
Content Type(s):
Staff research,
Staff discussion papers
Topic(s):
Econometric and statistical methods,
Financial stability
JEL Code(s):
C,
C1,
C15,
C3,
C31,
D,
D1,
D14,
E,
E5,
E51
Macroprudential Rules and Monetary Policy when Financial Frictions Matter
Staff Working Paper 2012-6
Jeannine Bailliu,
Césaire Meh,
Yahong Zhang
This paper examines the interaction between monetary policy and macroprudential policy and whether policy makers should respond to financial imbalances. To address this issue, we build a dynamic general equilibrium model that features financial market frictions and financial shocks as well as standard macroeconomic shocks.
Content Type(s):
Staff research,
Staff working papers
Topic(s):
Economic models,
Financial markets,
Financial stability,
Monetary policy framework
JEL Code(s):
E,
E4,
E42,
E5,
E50,
E6,
E60
Bank Leverage Regulation and Macroeconomic Dynamics
Staff Working Paper 2011-32
Ian Christensen,
Césaire Meh,
Kevin Moran
This paper assesses the merits of countercyclical bank balance sheet regulation for the stabilization of financial and economic cycles and examines its interaction with monetary policy.
Content Type(s):
Staff research,
Staff working papers
Topic(s):
Economic models,
Financial institutions,
Financial system regulation and policies,
Monetary policy framework,
Monetary policy transmission
JEL Code(s):
E,
E4,
E44,
E5,
E52,
G,
G2,
G21
Do Low Interest Rates Sow the Seeds of Financial Crises?
Staff Working Paper 2011-31
Simona Cociuba,
Malik Shukayev,
Alexander Ueberfeldt
A view advanced in the aftermath of the late-2000s financial crisis is that lower than optimal interest rates lead to excessive risk taking by financial intermediaries.
Content Type(s):
Staff research,
Staff working papers
Topic(s):
Financial system regulation and policies,
Monetary policy transmission
JEL Code(s):
D,
D5,
D53,
E,
E4,
E44,
E5,
E52,
G,
G2,
G28
Trading Dynamics with Adverse Selection and Search: Market Freeze, Intervention and Recovery
Staff Working Paper 2011-30
Jonathan Chiu,
Thorsten Koeppl
We study the trading dynamics in an asset market where the quality of assets is private information of the owner and finding a counterparty takes time. When trading of a financial asset ceases in equilibrium as a response to an adverse shock to asset quality, a large player can resurrect the market by buying up lemons which involves assuming financial losses.
Content Type(s):
Staff research,
Staff working papers
Topic(s):
Financial markets,
Financial stability
JEL Code(s):
E,
E6,
G,
G1
What Matters in Determining Capital Surcharges for Systemically Important Financial Institutions?
Staff Discussion Paper 2011-9
Céline Gauthier,
Toni Gravelle,
Xuezhi Liu,
Moez Souissi
One way of internalizing the externalities that each individual bank imposes on the rest of the financial system is to impose capital surcharges on them in line with their systemic importance.
Measuring Systemic Importance of Financial Institutions: An Extreme Value Theory Approach
Staff Working Paper 2011-19
Toni Gravelle,
Fuchun Li
In this paper, we define a financial institution’s contribution to financial systemic risk as the increase in financial systemic risk conditional on the crash of the financial institution. The higher the contribution is, the more systemically important is the institution for the system.
Content Type(s):
Staff research,
Staff working papers
Topic(s):
Econometric and statistical methods,
Financial institutions,
Financial stability,
Financial system regulation and policies
JEL Code(s):
C,
C1,
C14,
C5,
C58,
G,
G2,
G21,
G3,
G32
Lessons from International Central Counterparties: Benchmarking and Analysis
Staff Discussion Paper 2011-4
Alexandre Lazarow
Since the financial crisis, attention has focused on central counterparties (CCPs) as a solution to systemic risk for a variety of financial markets, ranging from repurchase agreements and options to swaps.
Content Type(s):
Staff research,
Staff discussion papers
Topic(s):
Financial markets,
Financial stability,
Financial system regulation and policies,
Payment clearing and settlement systems
JEL Code(s):
G,
G0,
G01,
G1,
G14,
G18,
G2,
G28,
G3,
G38
Financial Spillovers Across Countries: The Case of Canada and the United States
Staff Discussion Paper 2011-1
Kimberly Beaton,
Brigitte Desroches
The authors investigate financial spillovers across countries with an emphasis on the effect of shocks to financial conditions in the United States on financial conditions and economic activity in Canada. These questions are addressed within a global vector autoregression model.
Content Type(s):
Staff research,
Staff discussion papers
Topic(s):
Business fluctuations and cycles,
Economic models,
Financial stability,
International topics
JEL Code(s):
E,
E2,
E27,
E3,
E32,
F,
F3,
F36,
F4,
F40