Macroprudential policies since the global financial crisis have been central to safeguarding financial stability. Despite the increasing use of multiple policy instruments, a detailed understanding of interactions among them is still needed to assess how instrument combinations can enhance the...

Since the global financial crises, many countries have implemented macroprudential policies with the aim to render the financial system more resilient to shocks and limit the procyclicality of the financial system. We present theoretical and empirical evidence on the effectiveness of...

This European Central Bank (ECB) publication - Stress Test Analytics for Macroprudential Purposes in the euro area (STAMP€) - offers a suite of analytical tools for those interested in stress-testing frameworks and has been developed by ECB staff over the past few years.

Macroprudential policy can comprise a broad range of issues and topics. This is clearly reflected in the second issue of the ECB's Macroprudential Bulletin. The Bulletin starts with the macroprudential effects of the EU-wide bank stress testing exercise. The first chapter of the Bulletin...

The results of this paper provide empirical evidence that regulatory capital ratios drive bank Credit Default Swaps (CDS) and that markets react more to changes in capital requirements if implemented via direct adjustments to Pillar 1 risk weights than imposed as a percentage of Risk-Weighted...