Cross-country spillovers from macroprudential regulation: Reciprocity and leakage

Rubio, Margarita

Abstract

In a globally interconnected banking system, there can be spillovers from domestic macroprudential policies to foreign banks and vice versa, for example, through the presence of foreign branches in the domestic economy. The lack of reciprocity of some macroprudential instruments may result in an increase in bank ‡ows to those banks with lower regulatory levels, a phenomenon known as "leakage." This may decrease the e¤ectiveness of macroprudential policies in the pursuit of …nancial stability. To explore this topic, I consider a two-country DSGE model with housing and credit constraints. Borrowers can choose whether to borrow from domestic or foreign banks. Macroprudential policies are conducted at a national level and are represented by a countercyclical rule on the loan-to-value ratio. Results show that when there are some sort of reciprocity agreements on macroprudential policies across countries, …nancial stability and welfare gains are larger than in a situation of non reciprocity. An optimal policy analysis shows that, in order to enhance the e¤ectiveness of macroprudential policies, reciprocity mechanisms are desirable although the foreign macroprudential rule does not need to be as aggressive as the domestic one.

Citation

Rubio, M. (2020). Cross-country spillovers from macroprudential regulation: Reciprocity and leakage. Journal of International Money and Finance, 103, Article 102134. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jimonfin.2019.102134

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Dec 31, 2019
• Online Publication Date: Jan 7, 2020
• Publication Date: 2020-05
• Deposit Date: Jan 7, 2020
• Publicly Available Date: Jul 8, 2021
• Journal: Journal of International Money and Finance
• Print ISSN: 0261-5606
• Electronic ISSN: 1873-0639
• Publisher: Elsevier
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 103
• Article Number: 102134
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jimonfin.2019.102134
• Keywords: Macroprudential Policies; Spillovers; Banking Regulation; Foreign Branches; Leakage; Loan-to-value JEL Classi…cation: E44; F34; F41
• Public URL: https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/3682980
• Publisher URL: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0261560618302158
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