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Record Nr.

UNINA9910818620303321

Autore

Valencia Fabian

Titolo

Central Bank Independence and Macro-Prudential Regulation / / Fabian Valencia, Kenichi Ueda

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C. : , : International Monetary Fund, , 2012

ISBN

1-4755-1163-9

1-4755-8117-3

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (28 p.)

Collana

IMF Working Papers

IMF working paper ; ; WP/12/101

Altri autori (Persone)

UedaKenichi

Disciplina

332.1/52

Soggetti

Banks and banking, Central

Banks and banking

Banks and Banking

Finance: General

Inflation

Macroeconomics

Money and Monetary Policy

Optimization Techniques

Programming Models

Dynamic Analysis

Macroeconomics: Consumption

Saving

Wealth

Contingent Pricing

Futures Pricing

option pricing

Price Level

Deflation

Banks

Depository Institutions

Micro Finance Institutions

Mortgages

General Financial Markets: Government Policy and Regulation

Monetary Policy, Central Banking, and the Supply of Money and Credit: General

Banking

Finance

Monetary economics



Price stabilization

Financial sector stability

Credit

Prices

Government policy

Financial services industry

Option pricing

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; I: Introduction; II: Model Setup; III: Social Planner Benchmark; IV: Time inconsistency in a dual-mandate central bank; V: Separation of Objectives Achieves Social Optimum; VI: The role of political independence; A: Non-Independent Central Bank and Independent Macro-prudential Regulator; B: Non-Independent Macro-prudential Regulator and Independent Central Bank; VII: Welfare Comparisons; List of Tables; 1 Welfare Loss Across Institutional Arrangements; VIII: Conclusions; References; Appendices; I: Non-Independent Single Authority; II: Distortionary Macro-prudential Regulation

Sommario/riassunto

We consider the optimality of various institutional arrangements for agencies that conduct macro-prudential regulation and monetary policy. When a central bank is in charge of price and financial stability, a new time inconsistency problem may arise. Ex-ante, the central bank chooses the socially optimal level of inflation. Ex-post, however, the central bank chooses inflation above the social optimum to reduce the real value of private debt. This inefficient outcome arises when macro-prudential policies cannot be adjusted as frequently as monetary. Importantly, this result arises even when the central bank is politically independent. We then consider the role of political pressures in the spirit of Barro and Gordon (1983). We show that if either the macro-prudential regulator or the central bank (or both) are not politically independent, separation of price and financial stability objectives does not deliver the social optimum.