Artikel

Asset-Based Reserve Requirements: A New Monetary Policy Instrument for Targeting Diverging Real Estate Prices in the Euro Area

Can monetary policy prevent real estate bubbles from harming economic welfare? The European Central Bank (ECB) has to conduct monetary policy for the Euro area as a whole, but her policy affects countries with rapidly rising house prices (e.g. Spain) in a markedly different way than those with stagnating house prices (like Germany). For opposing divergent real estate price developments within the European Monetary Union (EMU), interest rate policy is not the appropriate instrument; whereas "fine tuning" may be possible with the help of asset-based reserve requirements. All financial institutions would be forced to deposit them at the ECB (as a percentage of asset holdings). Reserve rates are free to vary between countries. Therefore, rates should be highest in those countries where appropriate indicators signal a house price bubble.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Journal: Intervention. Zeitschrift fuer Ökonomie / Journal of Economics ; ISSN: 2195-3376 ; Volume: 04 ; Year: 2007 ; Issue: 2 ; Pages: 331-351

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Financial Markets and the Macroeconomy
Monetary Policy
General Financial Markets: Government Policy and Regulation
Thema
monetary policy
real estate prices
Tobin's Q
minimum reserve policy
financial stability

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Holz, Michael
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Metropolis-Verlag
(wo)
Marburg
(wann)
2007

DOI
doi:10.4337/ejeep.2007.02.10
Handle
Letzte Aktualisierung
10.03.2025, 11:42 MEZ

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Objekttyp

  • Artikel

Beteiligte

  • Holz, Michael
  • Metropolis-Verlag

Entstanden

  • 2007

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