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Handle with Care: Regulatory Easing in Times of COVID-19 / Fabian Valencia, Richard Varghese, Weijia Yao, Juan Yepez.
- Format:
- Book
- Government document
- Author/Creator:
- Valencia, Fabian.
- Series:
- IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2021/049
- IMF Working Papers
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (30 pages)
- Other Title:
- Handle with Care
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2021.
- Summary:
- The policy response to the COVID-19 shock included regulatory easing across many jurisdictions to facilitate the flow of credit to the economy and mitigate a further ampli-fication of the shock through tighter financial conditions. Using an intraday event study,this paper examines how stock prices—a key driver in financial conditions—reacted to regulatory easing announcements in a sample of 18 advanced economies and 8 emerging markets. The paper finds that overall, regulatory easing announcements contributed to looser financial conditions, but effects varied across sectors and tools. Financial regulatory easing led to lower valuations for financial sector stocks, and higher valuations for non-financial sector stocks, particularly for industries that are more dependent on bank financing. Furthermore, valuations declined and financial conditions tightened following announcements related to easier bank capital regulation while equity valuation rose and financial conditions loosened after those about liquidity regulation. Effects from non-regulatory financial measures appear to be generally more muted.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781513572222
- 1513572229
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