Macroprudential Policies in an Agent-Based Artificial Economy
Abstract
Basel III is a recently-agreed regulatory standard for bank capital adequacy with focus on the macroprudential dimension of banking regulation, i.e., the system-wide implications of banks? lending and risk. An important Basel III provision is to reduce procyclicality of present banking regulation and promote countercyclical capital buffers for banks. The Eurace agent-based macroeconomic model and simulator has been recently showed to be able to reproduce a credit-fueled boom-bust dynamics where excessive bank leverages, while benefitting in the short term, have destabilizing effects in the medium-long term. In this paper we employ the Eurace model to test regulatory policies providing time varying capital requirements for banks, based on mechanisms that enforce banks to build up or release capital buffers, according to the overall conditions of the economy. As conditioning variables for these dynamic policies, both the unemployment rate and the aggregate credit growth have been considered. Results show that the dynamic regulation of capital requirements is generally more successful than fixed tight capital requirements in stabilizing the economy and improving the macroeconomic performance.Download Info
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Article provided by Presses de Sciences-Po in its journal Revue de l'OFCE.
Volume (Year): N° 124 (2012)
Issue (Month): 5 ()
Pages: 205-234
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Keywords: basel III; macroprudential regulation; agent-based models and simulation;Other versions of this item:
- Marco Raberto & Andrea Teglio & Silvano Cincotti, 2012. "Macroprudential policies in an agent-based artificial economy," Working Papers 2012/05, Economics Department, Universitat Jaume I, Castellón (Spain).
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