Prudential Measures in Dealing with Capital Flows – Case of Poland

NBP Working Paper No. 244

38 Pages Posted: 22 Sep 2016

Date Written: July 14, 2016

Abstract

In the run up to the financial crisis of 2007-2009 many emerging market economies, including Poland, were affected by considerable inflows of capital – capital that their financial systems found difficult to absorb. One of a number of policy options to respond to such inflows are currency-based measures (CBMs) directed at banks that are, in principle, motivated by (macro-)prudential concerns. These measures are bank regulations that apply a discrimination on the basis of the currency of an operation, typically foreign currencies. This paper presents and analyses a dataset of CBMs directed at banks in Poland between 2005 and 2013. We denote the motivations for imposing CBMs and assess their effectiveness by measuring their impact on capital flows. We find that there is evidence of negative impact of CBMs on capital inflows in the first quarter after the measure starts to be in effect. It means that actions have targeted capital inflows – despite the declared (macro-)prudential purpose of the measures. However, we also find that the model implies a stronger effect when the variable of unweighted CBMs is used. Moreover, the model implies a strong relationship between capital inflows and the exchange rate. However, we do not find the impact of CBMs on the exchange rate.

Keywords: foreign currency-related measures, currency-based measures, currency

JEL Classification: F3, F65, G21, G28, G32

Suggested Citation

Kabza, Milena and Kostrzewa, Konrad, Prudential Measures in Dealing with Capital Flows – Case of Poland (July 14, 2016). NBP Working Paper No. 244, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2841606 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2841606

Milena Kabza (Contact Author)

National Bank of Poland ( email )

Poland

Konrad Kostrzewa

NBP ( email )

United States

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