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This paper discusses key findings of the Second Review Under the Stand-By Arrangement for Peru. The economy continued to perform well in 2004. Real GDP grew by 5.1 percent, inflation was 3.5 percent at end-December, and the fiscal deficit of the combined public sector narrowed to 1.1 percent of...
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shocks to the risk factors, the models and instruments, and the results. It presents the stress test methodology and also the …
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Many surveys of the ECB's monetary framework emphasize the inability of financial markets to correctly predict monetary policy decisions. At the same time, these surveys of financial market participants have given relatively high marks to the United States Federal Reserve and the Bank of England...
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the fundamental reasons to hold commodities? One reason is the exposure offered to underlying risk factors. In this paper …, I assess the macro risk exposure offered by commodity futures and test whether these risks are priced, using Merton …, this risk is not priced. …
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The large holdings of government securities by banks in India draw attention to their risk as interest rates are at … historical low levels. This paper measures such a risk using duration and value-at-risk methods and assesses its current … management by banks. The main finding is that some public sector and old private banks are vulnerable to a reversal of the …
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gains from hedging long-term bonds with interest rate derivatives. These bonds can help develop interest-rate derivative …
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Klyuev (2008) concluded that the Canadian market for housing finance is highly advanced and sophisticated, but financing options were somewhat limited, particularly at terms longer than five years. This paper argues that the paucity of longer-term loans is caused by a five-year maturity cap on...
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The paper analyzes the determinants of banking spreads in Barbados, with a view to identifying the role of the monetary policy regime in explaining high spreads. The paper finds that interest rate spreads for Barbados are higher than would be suggested by its macroeconomic performance. Banking...
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This paper sheds light on the attractiveness of U.S. assets by studying dollar risk premiums, calculated using … dollar risk premiums (i.e. expectations of a dollar depreciation net of interest rate effects) amid record capital inflows … of U.S. financial markets to European investors suggests that they offer a large array of assets, with different risk …
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Studies have shown that markets may underprice sub-national governments’ risk on the implicit assumption that these … a simultaneous increase in sovereign risk premia and decrease in sub-national risk premia–or a de facto transfer of risk … its autonomous regions from January 2010 to June 2013, we find support for our risk transfer hypothesis. We estimate that …
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