Belgium Financial Sector Assessment Program-Technical Note on Macroprudential Policy Framework and Tools

This technical note discusses macroprudential policy framework and tools in Belgium. The macroprudential policy framework could be strengthened along several dimensions. The government should publish its rationale for macroprudential policy decisions, including in the case of inaction to enact such...

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Corporate Author: International Monetary Fund Monetary and Capital Markets Department
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. International Monetary Fund 2023
Series:IMF Staff Country Reports
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520 |a This technical note discusses macroprudential policy framework and tools in Belgium. The macroprudential policy framework could be strengthened along several dimensions. The government should publish its rationale for macroprudential policy decisions, including in the case of inaction to enact such instruments through Royal decree. Communication by the National Bank of Belgium (NBB) on some of its macroprudential tools is strong but hampered for other instruments by the need to obtain government approval before decisions can be conveyed to a wider audience. The NBB should strengthen its systemic risk assessment framework by closing gaps and ensuring stronger integration of data and quantitative tools with instrument design and selection. A more holistic and structural approach should be contemplated to better gauge the transmission of macro-financial risks to individual financial intermediaries and to better detect financial sector spillovers. Switching to a positive neutral rate could facilitate Countercyclical capital buffer activation in an environment of repeated economic shocks and high macro-financial uncertainty. In view of the sizeable exposures of banks to Commercial real estate risk, a dedicated buffer to absorb potential losses if credit impairments materialize should be contemplated once the necessary elements for appropriate Sectoral systemic risk buffer calibration are in place