Better safe than sorry: Macroprudential policy, Covid 19 and climate change

Gaëtan Le Quang and Laurence Scialom

International Economics, 2022, vol. 172, issue C, 403-413

Abstract: The crisis of 2007-08 called for a renewal of banking regulation that took the shape of a shift toward macroprudential policy. However, a comprehensive assessment of the current state of financial regulation reveals that this shift is incomplete. In particular, the notion of risk that lies at the heart of the Basel framework is still blind to extreme events. Climate risk and pandemic risk fall into this category. The purpose of this article is twofold. On the one hand, we point out why current banking regulation is not adequate to face risks whose origin is grounded outside financial markets – as is the case for both the pandemic and the climate risks –; on the other hand, we offer avenues for reforming macroprudential regulation in a way that would allow to take those risks into account.

Keywords: Macroprudential policy; Climate change; Covid 19; Risk (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E58 G28 Q54 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1016/j.inteco.2021.07.002

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