Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/208271 
Year of Publication: 
2019
Series/Report no.: 
ECB Working Paper No. 2237
Publisher: 
European Central Bank (ECB), Frankfurt a. M.
Abstract: 
This paper contributes to the debate on the macroeconomic effectiveness of expansionary non-standard monetary policy measures in a regulated banking environment. Based on an estimated DSGE model, we explore the interactions between central bank asset purchases and bank capital-based financial policies (regulatory, supervisory or macroprudential) through its influence on bank risk-shifting motives. We find that weakly-capitalised banks display excessive risk-taking which reinforces the credit easing channel of central bank asset purchases, at the cost of higher bank default probability and risks to financial stability. In such a case, adequate bank capital demand through higher minimum capital requirements curtails the excessive credit origination and restores a more efficient propagation of central bank asset purchases. As supervisors can formulate further capital demands, uncertainty about the supervisory oversight provokes precautionary motives for banks. They build-up extra capital buffer attenuating non-standard monetary policy. Finally, in a weakly-capitalised banking system, countercyclical macroprudential policy attenuates banks risk-taking and dampens the excessive persistence of the non-standard monetary policy impulse. On the contrary, in a well-capitalised banking system, macroprudential policy should look through the effects of central bank asset purchases on bank capital position, as the costs in terms of macroeconomic stabilisation seem to outweigh the marginal financial stability benefits.
Subjects: 
non-standard monetary policy
asset purchases
bank capital regulation
risk-taking
regulatory uncertainty
effective lower bound
JEL: 
E44
E52
F40
Persistent Identifier of the first edition: 
ISBN: 
978-92-899-3499-2
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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