Systemic Risk: A New Trade-Off for Monetary Policy?

Stefan Laséen (), Andrea Pescatori () and Jarkko Turunen
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Andrea Pescatori: International Monetary Fund, Postal: 700 19th Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20431, USA.

No 341, Working Paper Series from Sveriges Riksbank (Central Bank of Sweden)

Abstract: We introduce time-varying systemic risk (à la He and Krishnamurthy, 2014) in an otherwise standard New-Keynesian model to study whether simple leaning-against-the-wind interest rate rules can reduce systemic risk and improve welfare. We find that while financial sector leverage contains additional information about the state of the economy that is not captured in inflation and output leaning against financial variables can only marginally improve welfare because rules are detrimental in the presence of falling asset prices. An optimal macroprudential policy, similar to a countercyclical capital requirement, can eliminate systemic risk raising welfare by about 1.5%. Also, a surprise monetary policy tightening does not necessarily reduce systemic risk, especially during bad times. Finally, a volatility paradox a la Brunnermeier and Sannikov (2014) arises when monetary policy tries to excessively stabilize output.

Keywords: Monetary Policy; Endogenous Financial Risk; DSGE models; Non-Linear Dynamics; Policy Evaluation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E30 E44 E52 E58 E61 G12 G20 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 53 pages
Date: 2017-08-01
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-cba, nep-dge, nep-mac and nep-mon
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Journal Article: Systemic risk: A new trade-off for monetary policy? (2017)
Working Paper: Systemic Risk: A New Trade-off for Monetary Policy? (2015)
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