Taming the Cycles of Finance?: Central Banks and the Macro-prudential Shift in Financial Regulation - Hardcover

Thiemann, Matthias

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1009233130 ISBN 13: 9781009233132

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2024

Synopsis

Macroprudential regulation is a set of economic and policy tools that aim to mitigate risk in the financial and banking systems. It was largely developed in response to the financial crisis of 2007-08, turning central banks into de facto financial policemen. Taming the Cycles of Finance traces the post-crisis rise of macroprudential regulation and argues that, despite its original aims, it typically supports finance in times of crisis but fails to curb it in times of booms. Investigating how different macroprudential frameworks developed in the UK, the USA and the Eurozone, the book explains how central bank economists went about building early warning systems to identify fragilities in the financial system. It then shows how administrative and political constraints limited the effects of this shift, as central banks were wary of intervening in a discretionary manner and policymakers were opposed to measures to limit credit growth.

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About the Author

Matthias Thiemann is associate professor of European public policy at sciences po's center for European studies. His work focuses on the ideational underpinnings of financial regulation and its policy effects. He published The Growth of Shadow Banking: A Comparative Institutional Analysis (2018) with Cambridge University Press.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1009233130
• ISBN 13: 9781009233132
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 352