Free DP Download 04 February 2022 - Macro-financial policy in an international financial centre: the United Kingdom experience since the global financial crisis

Thorsten Beck, Simon Lloyd, Dennis Reinhardt, Rhiannon Sowerbutts

We describe the macroprudential and monetary policy environment in the United Kingdom (UK). We highlight the UK's position as an international financial centre, and the implications for inward and outward spillover effects of monetary and prudential policy actions. These spillovers pose particular opportunities and challenges for policymakers, and we explain how they have motivated specific developments to the Bank of England's modelling framework. We also present novel empirical evidence that monetary policy actions in the UK have outward spillover effects through cross-border lending that can, in part, be mitigated by macroprudential actions in receiving countries.

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Discussion paper

DP16860 Macro-financial policy in an international financial centre: the United Kingdom experience since the global financial crisis

• Thorsten Beck
• Simon Lloyd
• Dennis Reinhardt
• Rhiannon Sowerbutts

5 Jan 2022

• Financial Economics
• F34
• G21
• G28

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Macro-financial policies in an international financial centre

• Thorsten Beck

4 Feb 2022

• Europe's nations and regions
• International Finance