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Capital regulation, risk-taking and monetary policy: A missing link in the transmission mechanism?

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In this article, the authors argue that insufficient attention has so far been paid to the link between monetary policy and the perception and pricing of risk by economic agents, what might be termed the "risk-taking channel" of monetary policy.
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This article is published in Journal of Financial Stability.The article was published on 2012-12-01 and is currently open access. It has received 862 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Monetary policy & Business cycle.

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Q1. What contributions have the authors mentioned in the paper "Capital regulation, risk-taking and monetary policy: a missing link in the transmission mechanism?, december 2008" ?

Few areas of monetary economics have been studied as extensively as the transmission mechanism. The literature on this topic has evolved substantially over the years, following the waxing and waning of conceptual frameworks and the changing characteristics of the financial system. In this paper, taking as a starting point a brief overview of the extant work on the interaction between capital regulation, the business cycle and the transmission mechanism, the authors offer some broader reflections on the characteristics of the transmission mechanism in light of the evolution of the financial system. 

3 “ Yes ” means that banks can default in equilibrium and this possibility is taken into account in the optimisation problem. 

28The implication is that the link between liquidity and risk-taking can add to the strength of the monetary policy transmission mechanism - a sort of “liquidity multiplier”. 

A key characteristic of much of this work is that it relies on a “no-arbitrage” framework, in which financing constraints resulting from imperfect information play no role (Ross (1988), Campbell et al (1997), Cochrane (2001)). 

The common assumption of model-consistent (rational) expectations and of a representative agent rules out key limitations in risk perceptions and incentives, and makes it harder to incorporate cross-sectional and inter-temporal coordination failures. 

To the extent that a further-reaching and more risk-sensitive prudential framework increases its influence on the workings of the financial system and the macroeconomy; it may also become more important in shaping the impact of monetary policy impulses. 

Together with the assumption of wage stickiness and that monetary policy following a traditional Taylor rule, this allows the model to exhibit a boom-bust-type cycle. 

In the late 1980s, the Committee agreed on a set of standards that linked minimum capital requirements to assets in a rather coarse fashion, making very limited distinctions through risk weights between differences in credit risk (“Basel I”). 

But under some conditions, especially if risk is underestimated and individual incentives are not aligned with desirable outcomes in the aggregate, the self-stabilising properties of the economy may not suffice to guarantee a fully benign increase in persistence. 

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Capital regulation, risk-taking and monetary policy: A missing link in the transmission mechanism?

The paper argues that insufficient attention has been paid to the link between monetary policy and the perception and pricing of risk by economic agents, which is referred to as the "risk-taking channel" of monetary policy.