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(Gambacorta and Shin, 2018), not the smoothing of the cycle, which is the ob-
jective of monetary policy (Chapter 9).
8.1.2 The denition of the nal objective
While the ultimate objective of MaPs is to preserve nancial stability, this ob-
jective needs to be claried in view of its rather vague nature (Chapter 1). First,
the goal of preventing nancial stability involves excluding crisis management
from the MaP area (Chapter 7; IMF, 2011). The same is true of macroeconomic
imbalances if they have no nancial eects. On the other hand, MaPs address
all the risks that emerge in the nancial sector or that are amplied by it. This
excludes the management of an individual bankruptcy if there is no risk of
contagion.