Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/173766 
Year of Publication: 
2016
Series/Report no.: 
NBB Working Paper No. 310
Publisher: 
National Bank of Belgium, Brussels
Abstract: 
This paper considers the interdependence of monetary and macroprudential policy in a New Keynesian business cycle model under the zero lower bound constraint. Entrepreneurs borrow in nominal terms from banks and are subject to idiosyncratic default risk. The realized loan return to the bank varies with aggregate risk, such that bank balance sheets are affected by higher-than-expected firm defaults. Monetary and macroprudential policies are given by an interest rate rule and a capital requirement rule, respectively. We first characterize the model's stability properties under different steady state policies. We then analyze the transmission of a risk shock under the zero lower bound and different macroprudential policies. We finally investigate whether these policies are indeed optimal.
Subjects: 
capital requirement
macroprudential policy
monetary policy
zero lower bound
JEL: 
E44
E52
E58
E61
G28
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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