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Toward a Framework for Systemic Liquidity Policy
Hobbs, J. Kimball; Dziobek, Claudia Helene; Marston, David - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2000
International policy efforts to strengthen financial systems have highlighted the role of liquidity. This paper … explores a framework to assess arrangements for market liquidity and lays out elements of systemic liquidity policy. Robust … arrangements for liquidity provide confidence to market participants that liquidity can be mobilized on demand in a predictable and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005604876
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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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Belgium; Technical Note on Stress Testing the Banking and Insurance Sectors
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2013
The Belgium Financial Sector Assessment Program (FSAP) stress testing exercise examines a financial sector that remains in a state of transformation. Domestic economic challenges remain sources of continued uncertainty as the banking sector consolidates and reduces funding risks. Insurers face...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011245216
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Emergency Liquidity Support Facilities
He, Dong - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2000
This paper discusses operational aspects of official emergency liquidity support to individual institutions under …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005263737
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France; Financial Sector Assessment Program—Technical Note on Stress Testing the Banking Sector
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2013
Prudentiel (ACP) to require banks to build up adequate capital and liquidity buffers. They suggest that the banking system would …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011243151
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Luxembourg; 2009 Article IV Consultation: Staff Report; Public Information Notice on the Executive Board Discussion; and Statement by the Executive Director for Luxembourg
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2009
The adverse impact of the crisis on Luxembourg’s growth outlook is partly mitigated by the authorities’ well-conceived fiscal policy response. The staff report for Luxembourg’s 2009 Article IV Consultation highlights economic developments and policies. It combines...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011244188
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Developing Essential Financial Markets in Smaller Economies; Stylized Facts and Policy Options
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2008
This paper surveys the foreign exchange markets, money and secondary government security markets, and stock exchanges in 107 smaller economy countries. The underdevelopment of these markets impedes risk transfer, monetary policy, corporate financing, and the capacity to absorb capital inflows....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011245902
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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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Managing Financial Crises; Recent Experience and Lessons for Latin America
Kincaid, G. Russell; Collyns, Charles - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2003
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005824823