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Economic and Financial Review

Journal

2012

Systemic Risk

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Macro-Financial Linkages: Implications Or Monetary And Financial System Stability, Frank Chikezie Dec 2012

Macro-Financial Linkages: Implications Or Monetary And Financial System Stability, Frank Chikezie

Economic and Financial Review

This paper is structured into two parts. Section I discuss the structure of the macroeconomy and the financial industry, and the interactions between monetary policy and the financial system. The section also showed how monetary policy could create the condition for financial stability. Section 2, on the other hand, discuss the implications of macro-financial linkages for monetary and financial system stability with emphasis on how the new credit risk transfer mechanism (securitisation and derivatives) had altered the nature of some macro-financial linkages, with considerable policy implications. The section concluded by referring to the new direction of macro-prudential regulation and the …


Macro-Prudential Regulation And Effective Monetary Policy, Moses K. Tule Dec 2012

Macro-Prudential Regulation And Effective Monetary Policy, Moses K. Tule

Economic and Financial Review

This paper makes a bold attempt to examine some of the issues within the narrow context of monetary policy. Following the introduction, Section 2 examines some conceptual issues including the institutional framework for monetary and macro-prudential policy. Section 3 discusses the objectives and instruments of monetary and macro-prudential policy including indicators of systemic risk, while Section 4 examines at the interaction of macro-prudential with monetary policy and how this could be enhanced. In Section 5, the experiences of other countries with macro-prudential regulation are presented and lessons drawn for Nigeria. Section 6 concludes the paper and provides insights for an …


Design, Institutional Arrangement And Implementation Of Macro-Prudential Framework, Charles Akoroda Dec 2012

Design, Institutional Arrangement And Implementation Of Macro-Prudential Framework, Charles Akoroda

Economic and Financial Review

The paper says that a sound and well-functioning financial system is viewed as compromising three pillars that are necessary to support orderly financial development and sustained financial stability. It enumerates the three (3) pillars as including: Macro-prudential surveillance and financial stability analysis; Financial system supervision and regulation to help manage the risks and vulnerabilities protect market integrity and good governance of financial institutions'; and Financial system infrastructure including: legal infrastructure for finance; systemic liquidity infrastructure; and transparency, governance and information infrastructure.