Inflation Targeting and Banking System Soundness: A Comprehensive Analysis

Dimas Fazio, Benjamin Tabak and Daniel Cajueiro

No 347, Working Papers Series from Central Bank of Brazil, Research Department

Abstract: Several specialists and authorities blame inflation targeting (IT) regime for not responding to the increasing systemic risk and the development of asset bubbles. Nevertheless, we employ a database with commercial banks from 71 countries between 1998 and 2012, and we present evidence that: banks from IT countries: (i) are, on average, more stable; (ii) have sounder systemically important banks; and (iii) are less affected in times of global liquidity shortage. These results are in line with the existence of a price stability channel towards financial stability. Our conclusions are robust to whether we compare banks from countries that have the same legal origins, whether we control for the responsibility of bank supervision being delegated to other bodies rather than the Central Bank.

Date: 2014-02
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