Monetary policy and macro-prudential regulation: the risk-sharing paradigm

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2014

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Banco Central de Chile

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Economic history is replete with episodes of financial crises creating havoc for the real economy. These episodes typically have three important ingredients. First there are large financial flows to finance a bubbling asset class such as sovereigns or housing with 'safe' debt. Second there is a sharp downward movement in the price of the asset that was being financed with debt. Third there is no apparent 'real shock' that one can point a figure at for the large drop in asset prices. In particular there is no major productionside disruption such as the failure of a technology political coup or breakout of large-scale disease. Yet the financial shocks translate into a deep and long economic recession. Why?

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POLÍTICA MONETARIA, CRISIS FINANCIERA

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