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The reasons why the housing market is of particular interest to the Reserve Bank , and the steps the Bank can take to mitigate risks that might arise from the housing market. Make sure you discuss the macroprudential policy measures that the Bank has put in place to address concerns arising from the housing market
Macroprudential policy focuses on the financial stability of
economy. This policy focused on decision making. Macroprudential
policy tools used to build up cyclical fluctuations in credit
supply, interdependence across the institutions and sectors and
cross boarder spill over. The policy implemented through continuous
monitoring on aggregate credit growth, growth in commercial real
estate, loan to deposit ratio, credit to GDP gap, growth of NPA,
interest coverage ratio etc. RBI used risk weight and provisioning
requirements to protect balance sheet of banks. The risk
weightening provisioning includes residential housing, commercial
real estate, capital market and measures to non banking financial
institutions.
Measures of macro prudential policy:
Intensive supervision of financial conglomerates: This identifies
the issues relating to financial stability, financial sector
development, inter regulatory coordination etc.
Regulating domestically systematically important banks: there is a
huge demand for housing market in domestic areas. Finding and
regulating these kinds of banks increase the back up of banks.
Limits on interbank liabilities: The uncontrolled liability having
a dominant feature. This make increasing rate of risks among the
banks.