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This paper seeks to draw lessons from the IMF’s experience in handling financial crises around the globe over the past ten years that are relevant to the challenges faced by countries in Latin America, especially in the wake of the recent crisis in Argentina. Experience suggests that...
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We present a stylized framework which encompasses a variety of "balance sheet approaches" to currency crises that have been suggested in the literature, and analyze their policy implications. The common theme is that currency and maturity mismatches in private sector balance sheets constrain the...
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This paper addresses the challenges to prudential supervision in highly dollarized economies, where central banks and supervisors may be constrained in the use of standard money and financial policy tools. The study’s conclusions are the basis of an ongoing policy dialogue with IMF member...
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We develop a simple framework for studying the joint distribution of banking and currency crises triggered by real shocks. Our framework illustrates the fact that bank and currency collapses are related but they are not the same thing. Studying currency and bank collapses either in isolation or...
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implications of the first decade of the Euro and to extend this understanding forwards to Europe and beyond. …
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the end of Pax Americana and the beginning of something else, possibly a Pax Europea, led by the strength of the euro … performance of these two economic blocs. While the current exchange rate between the US dollar and the euro has been considered a … worried. The strength of the euro is becoming irritating for the Eurozone and, nevertheless, the weakness of the US dollar is …
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