MACMILLAN Macroprudential Banking Supervision & Monetary Policy: Legal Interaction in the European Union

The European experience suggests that the efforts made to achieve an efficient trade-off between monetary policy and prudential supervision ultimately failed. The severity of the global crisis have pushed central banks to explore innovative tools―within or beyond their statutory constraints―capable of restoring the smooth functioning of the financial cycle, including setting macroprudential policy instruments in the regulatory toolkit. But macroprudential and monetary policies, by sharing multiple transmission channels, may interact―and conflict―with each other. Such conflicts may represent not only an economic challenge in the pursuit of price and financial stability, but also a legal uncertainty characterizing the regulatory developments of the EU macroprudential and monetary frameworks. In analyzing the “legal interaction” between the two frameworks in the EU, this book seeks to provide evidence of the inconsistencies associated with the structural separation of macroprudential and monetary frameworks, shedding light upon the legal instruments that could reconcile any potential policy inconsistency. From the Back Cover The European experience suggests that the efforts made to achieve an efficient trade-off between monetary policy and prudential supervision ultimately failed. The severity of the global crisis have pushed central banks to explore innovative tools―within or beyond their statutory constraints―capable of restoring the smooth functioning of the financial cycle, including setting macroprudential policy instruments in the regulatory toolkit. But macroprudential and monetary policies, by sharing multiple transmission channels, may interact―and conflict―with each other. Such conflicts may represent not only an economic challenge in the pursuit of price and financial stability, but also a legal uncertainty characterizing the regulatory developments of the EU macroprudential and monetary frameworks. In analyzing the “legal interaction” between the two frameworks in the EU, this book seeks to provide evidence of the inconsistencies associated with the structural separation of macroprudential and monetary frameworks, shedding light upon the legal instruments that could reconcile any potential policy inconsistency. About the Author Luca Amorello currently works as an Associate at Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP in London, UK. He received a LLM from Harvard Law School, USA, a PhD/Dr. jur. in Law and Economics of Money and Finance from Goethe University, House of Finance, Germany, and a LLB/LLM from University of Trieste Law School, Italy. Prior to joining Cleary Gottlieb, Luca worked at the European Central Bank, the Bank of Italy, and Hogan Lovells LLP.