Macroprudential FX regulations: Shifting the snowbanks of FX vulnerability?
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Ahnert, Toni
Forbes, Kristin
Friedrich, Christian
Reinhardt, Dennis
Date Issued
2021
Journal
Journal of Financial Economics
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Elsevier BV
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Ahnert, Toni, Forbes, Kristin, Friedrich, Christian and Reinhardt, Dennis. 2021. "Macroprudential FX regulations: Shifting the snowbanks of FX vulnerability?." Journal of Financial Economics, 140 (1).
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Abstract
© 2020 We use a new data set on macroprudential foreign exchange (FX) regulations to evaluate their effectiveness and unintended consequences. Our results support the predictions of a model in which banks and markets lend in different currencies, but only banks can screen firm productivity. Regulations significantly reduce bank FX borrowing, and firms respond by increasing FX debt issuance. Moreover, regulations reduce bank sensitivity to exchange rates but are less effective at reducing the sensitivity of the broader economy. Therefore, FX regulations mitigate bank vulnerability to currency fluctuations and the global financial cycle, but appear to partially shift the snowbanks of vulnerability elsewhere.
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Sloan School of Management
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https://doi.org/10.1016/J.JFINECO.2020.10.005
