Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/57966 
Year of Publication: 
2012
Series/Report no.: 
CESifo Working Paper No. 3794
Publisher: 
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo), Munich
Abstract: 
This paper provides a framework for modeling the risk-taking channel of monetary policy, the mechanism how financial intermediaries' incentives for liquidity transformation are affected by the central bank's reaction to financial crisis. Anticipating central bank's reaction to liquidity stress gives banks incentives to invest in excessive liquidity transformation, triggering an 'interest rate trap' - the economy will remain stuck in a long lasting period of sub-optimal, low interest rate equilibrium. We demonstrate that interest rate policy as financial stabilizer is dynamically inconsistent, and the constraint efficient outcome can be implemented by imposing ex ante liquidity requirements.
Subjects: 
interest rate trap
risk-taking channel
systemic risk
liquidity requirements
macroprudential regulation
JEL: 
E50
G21
G28
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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