Policy in Adaptive Financial Markets — The Use of Systemic Risk Early Warning Tools

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Mikhail V. Oet

Federal Reserve Banks - Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland; Case Western Reserve University - Weatherhead School of Management

Stephen J. Ong

Federal Reserve Banks - Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland

Dieter Gramlich

Baden-Wuerttemberg Cooperative State University Mosbach (DHBW)

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Date Written: May 31, 2013

Abstract

How can a systemic risk early warning system (EWS) facilitate the financial stability work of policymakers? In the context of evolving financial market dynamics and limitations of microprudential policy, this study examines new directions for financial macroprudential policy. A flexible macroprudential approach is anchored in strategic capacities of systemic risk EWSs. Tactically, macroprudential applications are founded on information about the level, structure, and institutional drivers of systemic financial stress and aim to manage the financial system risk and imbalances in two dimensions: across time and institutions. Time-related EWS policy applications are analyzed in pursuit of prevention and mitigation. EWS applications across institutions are considered via common exposures and interconnectedness. Care must be taken in the calibration of macroprudential applications, given their reliance on quality of the underlying systemic risk-modeling framework.

Keywords: financial stability, regulation, macroprudential, policy instrument, early warning system, systemic risk, financial stress, imbalance

JEL Classification: G01, G18, G28, E32, E37

Suggested Citation

Oet, Mikhail V. and Oet, Mikhail V. and Ong, Stephen J. and Gramlich, Dieter, Policy in Adaptive Financial Markets — The Use of Systemic Risk Early Warning Tools (May 31, 2013). FRB of Cleveland Working Paper No. 13-09, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2354035

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Stephen J. Ong

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Dieter Gramlich

Baden-Wuerttemberg Cooperative State University Mosbach (DHBW) ( email )

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