International financial positions and macroprudential policy

Abstract

The increasing financial integration in the Euro Area brings numerous advantages for the national and worldwide economies. However, it also entails the risk of fast crisis contagion and widespread economic and financial destabilization. Thus, there is an important role for macroprudential policy in this context, to ensure a sustainable and stable financial integration. But the economic and financial stabilization properties and spillovers of macroprudential regulation vary across borders. Using a two-country new Keynesian model for a monetary union I find that the international financial positions of the economies might determine the macroprudential policy effects after a symmetric financial shock.