01994cas a2200265 a 4500 AALejournalIMF018212 230101c9999 xx r poo 0 0eng d 5.00 USD 9781484338476 1018-5941 BD-DhAAL BD-DhAAL Choi, Seung. Friend or Foe? : Cross-Border Linkages, Contagious Banking Crises, and 'Coordinated' Macroprudential Policies / Seung Choi, Laura Kodres, Jing Lu. Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2018. 1 online resource (44 pages) IMF Working Papers <strong>Off-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required <strong>On-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required Electronic access restricted to authorized BRAC University faculty, staff and students This paper examines whether the coordinated use of macroprudential policies can help lessen the incidence of banking crises. It is well-known that rapid domestic credit growth and house price growth positively influence the chances of a banking crisis. As well, a crisis in other countries with high trade and financial linkages raises the crisis probability. However, whether such 'contagion effects' can operate to reduce crisis probabilities when highly linked countries execute macroprudential policies together has not been fully explored. A dataset documenting countries' use of macroprudential tools suggests that a 'coordinated' implementation of macroprudential policies across highly-linked countries can help to stem the risks of widespread banking crises, although this positive effect may take some time to materialize. Mode of access: Internet Kodres, Laura. Lu, Jing. IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2018/009 Full text available on IMF http://elibrary.imf.org/view/journals/001/2018/009/001.2018.issue-009-en.xml IMF e-Library