The contribution of macroprudential policies to banks' resilience: Lessons from the systemic crises and the COVID‐19 pandemic shock

Tiago Matos, João C. A. Teixeira and Tiago M. Dutra

International Review of Finance, 2023, vol. 23, issue 4, 794-830

Abstract: This study examines the effectiveness of macroprudential policies in reducing the banks' risk during the COVID‐19 pandemic and compares these results with the systemic banking crises years. Based on a sample of 624 banks across 40 countries during the period 2006–2020, we find that loosening capital‐aimed macroprudential policies effectively reduced banks' risk during the COVID‐19 pandemic, while this behavior led to increased risk during the systemic crises years. In contrast, tightening the remaining macroprudential policies during the systemic crises years and during the pandemic proved effective in reducing banks' risk. Furthermore, we show that the magnitude of the impact of macroprudential policies was stronger during the systemic crisis than that during the pandemic. Finally, we show that the results are driven by the capital requirement prudential policy, both during the systemic crisis and the COVID‐19 pandemic, although the conservation buffer and the leverage limit also contributes to the ineffectiveness of these policies during the COVID‐19 pandemic. The banks' leverage and loan growth also play an enhancing role of the effects of the macroprudential policies.

Date: 2023
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