News in Systemic Risk: Wednesday, August 12, 2020 (10 a.m. ET) August 12, 2020 The Financial Response to the Covid-19 Pandemic (Michael Barr, Howell Jackson, Margaret Tahyar; SSRN) Macroprudential policy and the role of institutional investors in housing markets (Manuel A. Muñoz; European Central Bank) ECB report on banks’ ICAAP practices (European Central Bank) Macroprudential regulation can effectively dampen global financial shocks in emerging markets (Katharina Bergant, Francesco Grigoli, Niels-Jakob Hansen, Damiano Sandri; VoxEU) IMF urges broad shake-up of US financial stability framework (William Towning; Central Banking) RBNZ Expands Bond Purchases to Aid Recovery as Covid Returns (Tracy Withers; Bloomberg)