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Current accounts in the long and short run
Kraay, Aart (contributor); Ventura, Jaume (contributor) - 2002 - [Elektronische Ressource]
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Elasticity Optimism
International Monetary Fund - 2009
In most macroeconomic models, the substitutability between domestic and foreign goods is calibrated using aggregated data. This imposes homogeneous elasticities across goods, and the calibration is only valid under this assumption. If elasticities are heterogeneous, the aggregate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014402215
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Switzerland : Financial Sector Assessment Program: Technical Note: An Assessment of Insurance Core Principles for the Reinsurance Industry
International Monetary Fund - 2007
This technical note discusses key findings of the assessment of Insurance Core Principles (ICP) for the reinsurance … industry for Switzerland. It reveals that the Swiss reinsurance market is dominated by three large players with a strong … international presence. The reinsurance industry comprises 20 professional reinsurers and 50 reinsurance captives with gross …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014407024
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Possible Unintended Consequences of Basel III and Solvency II
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2011
In today's financial system, complex financial institutions are connected through an opaque network of financial exposures. These connections contribute to financial deepening and greater savings allocation efficiency, but are also unstable channels of contagion. Basel III and Solvency II should...
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Guidelines for Investing PRG, PRG-HIPC, and CCR Trusts Assets
International Monetary Fund - 2017
On March 22, 2017, the Executive Board adopted the Guidelines for Investing PRG, PRG-HIPC, and CCR Trust Assets (the 'Guidelines') to establish the investment objectives and policies to guide the investment of assets of the PRG, PRG-HIPC, and CCR Trusts (the'Trusts') which are available for...
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Macrofinance Model of the Czech Economy : Asset Allocation Perspective
International Monetary Fund - 2012
The paper developes a VAR macrofinance model of the Czech economy. It shows that yield misalignments from the yields implied by the macrofinance model partially determine subsequent yield changes over three to nine months. These yield misalignments tend to persist for a number of months. This...
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Potential Role SDR Diversified Currency Portfolios Central Bank
International Monetary Fund - 1988
This paper compares the SDR in terms of its risk-return characteristics relative to those of its five components and, on this basis, finds that the SDR has performed favorably over the period under review. In addition, several efficient portfolios including the SDR and its components are...
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When in Peril, Retrench : Testing the Portfolio Channel of Contagion
International Monetary Fund - 2004
One plausible mechanism through which financial market shocks may propagate across countries is through the effect of past gains and losses on investors'' risk aversion. We first present a simple model on how heterogeneous changes in investors'' risk aversion affect portfolio decisions and stock...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014402038
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Compliance with the AM+L4776L/CFT International Standard; Lessons from a Cross-Country Analysis
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2011
This paper assesses countries' compliance with the Anti-Money Laundering and Combating the Financing of Terrorism (AML/CFT) international standard during the period 2004 to 2011. We find that overall compliance is low; there is an adverse impact on financial transparency created by the...
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The multiproduct firm : horizontal and vertical integration
Helpman, Elhanan - 1983
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