Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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5101491 | Journal of Monetary Economics | 2017 | 36 Pages |
Abstract
An obvious cost of “leaning against the wind” is a weaker economy if no (financial) crisis occurs. Possible benefits are lower probabilities and smaller magnitudes of crises. A second cost-less obvious, previously overlooked, but higher-is a weaker economy if a crisis occurs. For representative estimates, costs exceed benefits by substantial margins. Overturning the result requires policy-rate effects on the probability and magnitude of crises more than 5-40 standard errors larger than representative estimates. Higher probabilities, larger magnitudes, or longer durations of crises-typical consequences of ineffective macroprudential policy-increase the margin of costs over benefits
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Authors
Lars E.O. Svensson,