Monetary Policy and Macroprudential Regulation with Financial Frictions

by Pierre-Richard Agénor

An integrated analysis of how financial frictions can be accounted for in macroeconomic models built to study monetary policy and macroprudential regulation.   Since the global financial crisis, there has been a renewed effort to emphasize financial frictions in designing closed- and open-economy macroeconomic models for monetary and macroprudential policy analysis. Drawing on the extensive literature of the past decade as well as his own contributions, in this book Pierre-Richard Agénor provides a unified set of theoretical and quantitative macroeconomic models with financial frictions to explore issues that have emerged in the wake of the crisis. These include the need to understand better how the financial system amplifies and propagates shocks originating elsewhere in the economy; how it can itself be a source of aggregate fluctuations; the extent to which central banks should account for financial stability considerations in the conduct of monetary policy; whether national central banks and regulators should coordinate their policies to promote macroeconomic and financial stability; and how much countercyclical macroprudential policies should be coordinated at the international level to mitigate financial spillovers across countries. Agénor focuses on upper middle-income countries, which differ from advanced economies in terms of both their structural features (which include a financial sector dominated by banks, weak supervisory capacity, and a high degree of vulnerability to external shocks) and their long-standing policy challenges (such as managing volatile capital flows). Some of the analytical insights and broad policy lessons that can be drawn from the book will be of relevance to advanced economies as well.

600 pages, Hardcover

Published November 10, 2020

Reviews

[Richard Marney · Rating 5 out of 5]

A brilliant model-based study of the impact of financial market frictions on the broader macroeconomy and the policy considerations.

I admit I read only selected chapters to fortify and/or design lecture materials for an upcoming graduate course I am teaching. I am grateful for the clear descriptions setting-up the work, and the crisp, rigorous analysis. I learned much!!!

A useful read for doctoral-level economics students and beyond! 😎