Macroprudential policy : taming the wild gyrations of credit flows, debt stocks and asset prices /

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Author / Creator:Barwell, Richard, 1974-
Imprint:Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.
Description:xvii, 378 pages ; 24 cm
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/9268645
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ISBN:9781137274458
113727445X
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Key Recommendations
  • Acknowledgements
  • Part I. The Practice of Macroprudential Policy
  • 1. Preliminaries
  • 1. The incalculable costs of financial crises
  • 2. Defining financial stability...
  • 3. Explaining the failure to act
  • 4. A whistle-stop tour of the microprudential reform agenda
  • 2. The Design of Macroprudential Policy
  • 1. Enter macroprudential policy
  • 2. Resilience versus credit smoothing
  • 3. A cost-benefit analysis of macroprudential policy
  • 4. Managing the contradictions
  • 3. The Institutions of Macroprudential Policy
  • 1. Macroprudential policy in the United Kingdom
  • 2. It ain't what you do, it's the reason that you do it
  • 3. The European dimension
  • 4. The global macroprudential agenda
  • 4. The Instruments of Macroprudential Policy
  • 1. The transmission of policy
  • 2. Capital surcharges
  • 3. Contingent capital
  • 4. Regulating the liquidity cycle
  • 5. The lender of last resort
  • 6. The marker maker of last resort
  • 5. The Conduct of Macroprudential Policy
  • 1. Canaries in me coalmine
  • 2. Macroprudential policy from 30,000 feet
  • 3. The Sherlock Holmes approach to macroprudential policy
  • 4. Thinking the thinkable: systemic stress tests and Bayesian nets
  • 5. Macroprudential regulation of the SIFIs: separating science fact from science fiction
  • Part II. The Theory of Macroprudential Policy
  • 6. The Conventional Wisdom
  • 1. Meet the conventional wisdom
  • 2. The key pillars of the classical edifice
  • 3. Walrasian auctioneers: nothing worth shouting about
  • 4. The representative agent assumption
  • 5. The irrelevance of capital structure
  • 7. An Unstable System
  • 1. The mavericks
  • 2. Following the herd
  • 3. Introducing institutions
  • 4. Credit, balance sheets and asset prices
  • 5. The family tree of financial crises
  • 6. The hysteresis loop
  • 7. The liquidity cycle
  • 8. Final Thoughts
  • 1. Are financial markets worth the heartache?
  • 2. The way ahead
  • Bibliography
  • Index