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as financial depth and integration were also relevant. Finally, countercyclical monetary policy and liquidity played a …
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the existence of the structural liquidity in the banking system; bank’s unwillingness to lock up liquidity in the NBP … also shows the effectiveness of the NBP’s responses to the financial crisis and structural liquidity surplus. …
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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....
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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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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 …
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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...
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Interest rates in China comprise a mix of both market determined interest rates (interbank rates and bond yields), and regulated interest rates (lending and deposit rates), reflecting China's gradual process of interest rate liberalization. We argue, using a theoretical model and empirical...
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attention was paid to the potential spillover of excess liquidity. This paper suggests a notional level of "optimal" liquidity …
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-term liquidity effects, where monetary costs act as transaction costs and the quantity theory of money is verified. …We show that, in a monetary equilibrium, trade and asset prices depend on both the supply of the liquidity by the … Central Bank and the liquidity of assets and commodities. As a result, monetary aggregates are informative for the conduct of …
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borrowing. The subsequent crisis has reduced the pool of assets considered acceptable as collateral, resulting in a liquidity … shortage. When trying to address this, policy makers will need to consider concepts of liquidity besides the traditional metric …
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