Monetary and macroprudential policy coordination among multiple equilibria

The notion of a tradeoff between output and financial stabilization is based on monetary-macroprudential models with unique equilibria. Using a game theory setup, this paper shows that multiple equilibria lead to qualitatively different results. Monetary and macroprudential authorities have tools th...

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Main Author: Agur, I. (Author)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier Ltd 2019
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520 3 |a The notion of a tradeoff between output and financial stabilization is based on monetary-macroprudential models with unique equilibria. Using a game theory setup, this paper shows that multiple equilibria lead to qualitatively different results. Monetary and macroprudential authorities have tools that impose externalities on each other's objectives. One of the tools (macroprudential) is coarse, while the other (monetary policy) is unconstrained. We find that this asymmetry always leads to multiple equilibria, and show that under economically relevant conditions the authorities prefer different equilibria. Giving the unconstrained authority a weight on “helping” the constrained authority (“leaning against the wind”) now has unexpected effects. The relation between this weight and the difficulty of coordinating is hump-shaped, and therefore a small degree of leaning worsens outcomes on both authorities’ objectives. © 2019 Elsevier Ltd 
650 0 4 |a Financial stability 
650 0 4 |a Leaning against the wind 
650 0 4 |a Multiple objectives 
650 0 4 |a Prudential regulation 
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773 |t Journal of International Money and Finance