 The macroeconomic effects of macroprudential policy: Evidence from a narrative approachDiego Rojas, Carlos Vegh and Guillermo Vuletin Journal of International Economics, 2022, vol. 139, issue C Abstract: We analyze the macroeconomic effects of macroprudential policy – in the form of legal reserve requirements – in three Latin American countries (Argentina, Brazil, and Uruguay). To correctly identify innovations in changes in legal reserve requirements, we develop a narrative approach that classifies each change into endogenous or exogenous to the business cycle. We show that this distinction is critical in understanding the macroeconomic effects of reserve requirements. In particular, we show that output falls in response to exogenous increases in legal reserve requirements but is not affected when using all changes and relying on traditional time-identifying strategies. This bias reflects the practical relevance of the misidentification of endogenous countercyclical changes in reserve requirements. Keywords: Macroprudential policy; Reserve requirements; Monetary policy; Narrative approach; Identification; Business cycle; Endogeneity; Macroeconomic effects (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:inecon:v:139:y:2022:i:c:s0022199622000769 DOI: 10.1016/j.jinteco.2022.103644 Access Statistics for this article Journal of International Economics is currently edited by Gourinchas, Pierre-Olivier and RodrÃguez-Clare, Andrés More articles in Journal of International Economics from Elsevier |
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