Macroprudential analysis of financial institutions

ENSAE Master 2 - May/June 2012


This 12 hours course is taught on Tuesdays 15, 22, 23, 29 May, from 2 PM to 5.15 PM.
Location: Malakoff, Room 19.

You may reach the teachers at the following addresses:
Jean-Stéphane Mésonnier: jean-stephane.mesonnier@banque-france.fr. [web page]
Jean-Paul Renne: jean-paul.renne@banque-france.fr [web page]

Course curriculum and references

Slides of the course

Introduction

Lessons from the 2007-2009 crisis

Regulating bank liquidity in a macroprudential perspective

Regulating bank capital in a macroprudential perspective

An overview of new macroprudential policies and institutions


Homework assignement

We expect you to write a 2-3 pages commentary on one of the selected papers below. Your work will take the form of a referee report for a fictitious journal (let us call it Journal of Macroprudential analysis). The standard outline of such a report is the following: 
- short summary of the paper, its methodology and its main results (less than one page),
- general assessment (praise and weaknesses)
- main comments (a series of -methodological, econometric, conceptual...- issues to be solved or improved, or important questions that need to be answered, in particular if the journal before the journal is to publish the paper)
- minor comments ( a few other points)

The Impact of a Liquidity Shock on Bank Lending: The Case of the 2007 Collapse of the Private-Label RMBS Market Calem, Covas, Wu

Leverage Regulation and Macroeconomic Dynamics Christensen, Meh, Moran,

Taming SIFIs Freixas, Rochet

Does macropru leak ? Empirical evidence from a UK policy experiment Ayiar, Calomiris, Wieladek

Bank risk-taking, Securitization, supervision and low interest rates: Evidence from the Euro area and the US lending standards Maddaloni, Peydró

Business models and bank risk during the Great Recession Altunbas, Manganelli, Marquez-Ibanes

Repo runs Martin, Skeie, von Thadden

Fuzzy capital requirements, risk shifting and the risk-taking channel of monetary policy Dubecq, Mojon, Ragot