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Bank Credit During the 2008 Financial Crisis; A Cross-Country Comparison
Aisen, Ari; Franken, Michael - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2010
as financial depth and integration were also relevant. Finally, countercyclical monetary policy and liquidity played a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008519493
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How to Stop a Herd of Running Bears? Market Response to Policy Initiatives During the Global Financial Crisis
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2009
United Kingdom, the euro area, and Japan during the recent crisis on interbank credit and liquidity risk premia …. Announcements of interest rate cuts, liquidity support, liability guarantees, and recapitalization were associated with a reduction …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008559268
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Commercial note issuing banks and capital market development : an empirical test of the Enskilda Banks' assets, liabilities and reserves in relation to evolving capital market liqu...
Ögren, Anders (contributor) - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]
; Free Banking ; Liquidity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001808209
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Cash auction bankruptcy and corporate restructuring
Thorburn, Karin S. - 1998
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10000983728
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Access to Bank Credit in Sub-Saharan Africa; Key Issues and Reform Strategies
Sacerdoti, Emilio - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2005
This study discusses issues of access to bank credit in Sub-Saharan Africa, and examines measures that could help facilitate access by the private sector to bank credit. It reviews in particular obstacles to credit small- and medium-scale enterprises and agriculture, and examines progress in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005264006
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Financial Sector Reforms and Prospects for Financial Integration in Maghreb Countries
Sole, Juan; Sensenbrenner, Gabriel; Tahari, Amor; … - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2007
A healthy and dynamic financial sector is essential to achieving high and sustainable economic growth in the Maghreb region-Algeria, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, and Tunisia. Financial integration within the Maghreb region will help deepen financial markets, increase their efficiency, and enhance...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005825882
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Excess Liquidity and the Effectiveness of Monetary Policy; Evidence From Sub-Saharan Africa
Saxegaard, Magnus - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2006
This paper examines the pattern of excess liquidity in sub-Saharan Africa and its consequences for the effectiveness of … monetary policy. The paper argues that understanding the consequences of excess liquidity requires quantifying the extent to … which commercial bank holdings of excess liquidity exceed levels required for precautionary purposes. It proposes a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005826003
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The Federal Reserve System Balance Sheet-What Happened and Why it Matters
Stella, Peter - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2009
The recent expansion of the balance sheet of the consolidated Federal Reserve Banks (FRB) is analyzed in an historical context. The analysis reveals that the nature of Fed involvement in U.S. financial markets has changed dramatically and its expansion is several orders of magnitude beyond what...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008528678
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Information updating and insurance dropout : evidence from dental insurance
Grönqvist, Erik (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]
Micro data from a dental insurance natural experiment is used to analyze why agents opt out of insurance. The purpose is to relate the dropout decision to new information on risk, acquired by the policy holder and the insurer. The results show that agents tend to leave the insurance when...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002570047
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Learning to be prepared
Kets, Willemien (contributor); Voorneveld, Mark (contributor) - 2005 - [Elektronische Ressource]
Behavioral economics provides several motivations for the common observation that agents appear somewhat unwilling to deviate from recent choices: salience, inertia, the formation of habits, the use of rules of thumb, or the locking in on certain modes of behavior due to learning by doing. This...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002640702