Abstract:Twopillar policies constitute a crucial part of the postcrisis financial stabilization framework. As regards ameliorating the twopillar regulatory framework and mitigating banking sector risks, it is crucial to examine the effect of twopillar policies on bank risktaking in a systematical way. Hence, this paper analyzes the transmission mechanism between the twopillar policies and bank risktaking from a micro perspective. Based on this, an empirical study is conducted using banklevel panel data from 262 commercial banks in China from 2007 to 2020, to test the effects. The findings are as follows: Contractionary monetary policy and macroprudential regulation both exert a marginal reducing effect on bank risktaking, while loose monetary policy exerts a risk spillover effect on banks, which can be mitigated by macroprudential regulation. Mechanism analysis shows that macroprudential regulation mitigates the spillover effect of monetary policy by alleviating the negative impact of lowinterest rate monetary policy on bank charter value and by attenuating the procyclical adjustment of bank leverage, thereby performing a coordinated riskabating effect. In terms of crosssectional dimension, interbank connection exerts an asymmetric influence on the coordination effect of twopillar policies on bank risktaking. In a monetaryeasing environment, an increase in the interbank connection level weakens the mitigating effect of macroprudential regulation on the risk spillover generated by loose monetary policy. In a monetarytightening environment, an increase in interbank connection level worsens the weakening effect of macroprudential regulation on the riskreducing effect of contractionary monetary policy. Besides, twopillar policies generate a better coordinated riskabating effect on larger banks or those with a lower proportion of noninterest rate revenue. In terms of the time dimension, interest rate marketization strengthens the coordinated riskabating effect of twopillar policies, while increased monetary policy uncertainty weakens that effect.