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Title: Countercyclical Liquidity Policy and Credit Cycles: Evidence from Macroprudential and Monetary Policy in Brazil

Author(s): Rodrigo Barbone Gonzalez, João Barata R. Blanco Barroso, José Luis Peydró and Bernardus van Doornik

Publication Date: September 2020

Keyword(s): Credit cycles, liquidity, macroprudential and monetary policy and reserve requirements

Programme Area(s): International Macroeconomics and Finance

Abstract: We show that countercyclical liquidity policy smooths credit supply cycles, with stronger crisis effects. For identification, we exploit the Brazilian supervisory credit register and liquidity policy changes on reserve requirements, that affected banks differentially and have a monetary and prudential purpose. Liquidity policy strongly attenuates both the credit crunch in bad times and high credit supply in booms. Strong economic effects are twice as large during the crisis easing than during the boom tightening. Finally, in crises, liquidity easing: increase less credit supply by more financially constrained banks; and collateral requirements increase substantially, especially by banks providing higher credit supply.

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Barbone Gonzalez, R, Blanco Barroso, J, Peydró, J and van Doornik, B. 2020. 'Countercyclical Liquidity Policy and Credit Cycles: Evidence from Macroprudential and Monetary Policy in Brazil'. London, Centre for Economic Policy Research. https://cepr.org/active/publications/discussion_papers/dp.php?dpno=15274