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Macroeconomic Diagnostics (MDSx)

Module 6

Macrofinancial Linkages

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Course: MDSx
Module: 6
Section: 1

Video #: 1
Video Title: Introduction to macrofinancial linkages
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Introduction to macrofinancial linkages

Macrofinancial linkages
 Have not always been recognized
 Are bi-directional Required Negative
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 Can be positive, negative, or neutral
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 Our focus:
(Highly) negative finance to macro linkages
Force us to consider macro to finance
Not always recognized

“Traditional” or “Idealized” view

“Surplus Units” “Deficit Units” Required Negative


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Savers Capital (Not for instructor
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Households investors Please do not adjust
Firms text field positions.

 No role for finance: meeting, contracting,


agreeing, and complying is costless
Role of finance in macro is now clearer

Real World: with frictions

“Surplus Units” “Deficit Units”


Savers Capital investors Required Negative
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Households Firms (Not for instructor
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Uncertainty
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Imperfect competition text field positions.
Imperfect information
Opportunistic behavior
Agency problems

Finance
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Course: MDSx
Module: 6
Section: 1

Video #: 2
Video Title: Roadmap and motivation
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Roadmap for this Module

 What is a banking crisis?


 Our diagnostic goal Required Negative

 Introducing FSIs—levels
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 One step further: variability Please do not adjust

 A peek at stress testing text field positions.

 Wrap-Up
Why should we care?

Diagnosis of financial sector→ take corrective


action if needed

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1. Financial accelerator: mutual reinforcement of Space
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macro & finance notes.)

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2. Macro-financial vulnerabilities: identify early


on, to avoid negative repercussions
 Can financial sector withstand shocks in
other sectors?
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Course: MDSx
Module: 6
Section: 2

Video #: 1
Video Title: What is a banking crisis?
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What is a banking crisis?

 Signs of banking system distress


 Bank runs
 Losses Required Negative
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 Liquidations notes.)

 Banking policy intervention measures Please do not adjust


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 Liquidity support
 Bank restructuring or nationalizations
 Guarantees or deposit freezes/bank holidays
 Asset purchases
What is a banking crisis?

Two cases (all figures in %)


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Argentina 2001-03 Thailand 1997-2000
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80 notes.)

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60 text field positions.

40

20

0
Peak NPLs Fiscal costs Increase in public Liquidity support Output loss
debt
What is a banking crisis?

Our focus:
 Losses
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 NPLs Space
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 Liability runs Please do not adjust
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But, ultimately it boils down to:


 Insolvency/Loss of bank capital
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Course: MDSx
Module: 6
Section: 2

Video #: 2
Video Title: Our diagnostic goal
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Our diagnostic goal

To detect vulnerabilities, early signs of


distress before a crisis actually happens
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“How did you go bankrupt?” (Not for instructor
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“Two ways. Gradually, then all of a
sudden”

Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises


Our diagnostic goal

To detect the possibility that bank capital


could be wiped out (default):

K = A – L Required Negative
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 Insolvency occurs when A < L
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 How likely is this?

 How close are we to this possibility?


Graphical representation

Value of
Assets, Distribution of Asset value at T
Liabilities, Expected Required Negative
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Liabilities
A0

K0
L0
Probability of default

T Time
Our diagnostic goal

What determines probability of default?

 How much capital you have today: K0


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 The volatility of A Space
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 By how much you expect A and L to grow Please do not adjust
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Note:
 A is measured imprecisely (Book Value)
 We’ll focus on different balance sheet items
 FSIs give first approximation
Our diagnostic goal

We’ll highlight the relevance of selected


Financial Soundness Indicators (FSIs)
 Capital adequacy Required Negative
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 Asset quality notes.)

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 Earnings and profitability text field positions.

 Liquidity
 Sensitivity to exchange rates
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Course: MDSx
Module: 6
Section: 3

Video #: 1
Video Title: Capital adequacy
Video Type: Excel demo
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Course: MDSx
Module: 6
Section: 3

Video #: 2
Video Title: Asset quality 1
Video Type: Excel demo
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Module: 6
Section: 3

Video #: 3
Video Title: Asset quality 2
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Course: MDSx
Module: 6
Section: 4

Video #: 1
Video Title: Earnings
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Course: MDSx
Module: 6
Section: 4

Video #: 2
Video Title: Liquidity runs
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Course: MDSx
Module: 6
Section: 4

Video #: OPT
Video Title: Interest rate risk
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Course: MDSx
Module: 6
Section: 4

Video #: 3
Video Title: Exchange rate risk
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Course: MDSx
Module: 6
Section: 5

Video #: 1
Video Title: Variability and Z-score
Video Type: Power Point/Excel demo
Now we introduce variability

Will help assess whether a given FSI level


is appropriate
 First, combine capital adequacy and Required Negative
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profitability (Not for instructor
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K Please do not adjust


 ROA text field positions.

 Z-score: z A
 ROA

 Often called “distance to distress”


Now we introduce variability

For Bankistan

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 K/A = 8.1%, ROA = 1.3% Space
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 From historical series (1996-2010): sROA = 2.3%
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 It would take a (negative) profitability shock equal to
4.16 s’s to wipe out capital

 How likely?

 If ROA follows normal distribution, p = 0.002%


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Course: MDSx
Module: 6
Section: 5

Video #: 2
Video Title: Variability and further questions
Video Type: Power Point/Excel demo
Alternative ways of looking at this

 Probability that a (-) earnings shock will:


 Bankrupt the system: 0.002%
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should expect to lose x% of the time?
 Value at Risk (VaR)
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Course: MDSx
Module: 6
Section: 6

Video #: 1
Video Title: A Peek at Stress Testing
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A peek at stress testing

Surprise: you’ve already gotten it!


What would happen to the banking system
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 All NPLs have to be written off notes.)

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 NPLs increase rapidly text field positions.

 There is a run on deposits (or other liabilities)

 Earnings fall (by a multiple of s)

 There is a large depreciation


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Course: MDSx
Module: 6
Section: 6

Video #: 2
Video Title: Wrap-Up
Video Type: Excel
Wrap-Up

We’ve assessed:

 Capital adequacy Shocks to:


 Asset quality And  Borrower defaults Required Negative
 Earnings vulnerabilities  Earnings fall Space
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Liquidity to:  Deposit run notes.)
 Sensitivity to ER  Exchange rates
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 Government default
Other
 Loan concentration
vulnerabilities we  Bank interlinkages
could analyze:  Off-balance sheet
 Non-bank institutions
Wrap-Up

 MF linkages: not obvious, bi-directional,


good, bad, neutral
 Amplification: financial accelerator Required Negative
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 Tail (rare) events: banking crises (Not for instructor
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 Analysis of crisis/distress Please do not adjust


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 Boils down to capital
 FSIs: 1st approximation, then complement:
 Volatilities (Ex: z-score)
 Stress Tests
 Value at Risk
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