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Republic of Lithuania: Technical Assistance Report on Proposals for Reforming the Insolvency Regime
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2011
In recent years, the IMF has released a growing number of reports and other documents covering economic and financial developments and trends in member countries. Each report, prepared by a staff team after discussions with government officials, is published at the option of the member country.
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United States; Selected Issues
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2012
This Selected Issues paper for the United States discusses the microeconomics of the country—household wealth and savings. Households’ consumption-saving decisions have an important bearing on the U.S. economic outlook. This paper demonstrates how households with consistently lower...
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Republic of Lithuania; Financial Sector Assessment Program Update-Technical Note-Insolvency and Creditor Rights Assessment
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2008
area of corporate insolvency, the Enterprise Bankruptcy Law and the Law on Restructuring of Enterprises are generally …
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Tackling Small and Medium Enterprise Problem Loans in Europe
Bergthaler, Wolfgang; Kang, Kenneth; Liu, Yan; … - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2015
The global financial crisis has left a large private sector debt overhang and high levels of non- performing loans (NPLs) in several European countries. Small and medium-size enterprises (SMEs) represent a significant and weak segment of the nonfinancial corporate sector. SMEs face a number of...
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Bank Funding Structures and Risk; Evidence From the Global Financial Crisis
Federico, Pablo; Vázquez, Francisco F. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2012
This paper analyzes the evolution of bank funding structures in the run up to the global financial crisis and studies the implications for financial stability, exploiting a bank-level dataset that covers about 11,000 banks in the U.S. and Europe during 2001?09. The results show that banks with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009650626
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Mortgage Defaults
Martinez, Leonardo; Hatchondo, Juan Carlos; Sanchez, Juan M. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2012
This paper incorporates house price risk and mortgages into a standard incomplete market (SIM) model. The model is calibrated to match U.S. data and accounts for non-targeted features of the data such as the distribution of down payments, the life-cycle profile of home ownership, and the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009650640
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Balance-Sheet Shocks and Recapitalizations
Sandri, Damiano; Valencia, Fabian - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2012
We develop a dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model with financial frictions on both financial intermediaries and goods-producing firms. In this context, due to high leverage of financial intermediaries, balance sheet disruptions in the financial sector are particularly detrimental for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009654148
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The river sharing problem: A review of the technical literature for policy economists
Beard, Rodney - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
over-allocated. Demand for water exceeds the available supply. Essentially, the water economy is bankrupt. Bankruptcy … of the paper is that the connection between the bankruptcy literature, which has recently also realized the importance of …
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Coordinated failure? a cross-country bank failure prediction model
Santoso, Wimboh; Montgomery, Heather; Besar, Dwityapoetra; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005
This paper empirically investigates the causes of bank failures in Japan and Indonesia. Using logistic regression analysis of financial ratios, we explore the usefulness of domestic bank failure prediction models with a cross-country model that allows for cross-correlation of the error terms....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009278271
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CAUSES OF BANKRUPTCY IN EUROPE AND CROATIA
Novak, Branko; Sajter, Domagoj - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
Bankruptcy is an interesting object of research, being habitually perceived as a shocking and scandalous event … in general) extensively compares its characteristics with the existing members. Since Croatian bankruptcy law is for the … especially interesting for Croatian bankruptcy researchers. Even though being a part of the EU, the United Kingdom’s Anglo …
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