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Global Liquidity : Credit and Funding Indicators
International Monetary Fund - 2013
This note reviews some concepts of global liquidity and discusses measurement approaches that have been used by various interlocutors, including at the BIS, by Fund staff, and in academia. Some measures that could be regularly monitored by policy makers are presented
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014410545
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Financial Crisis in Developing Countries and Structural Weaknesses of the Financial System
International Monetary Fund - 1989
This paper examines the generation of financial crises in developing economies and shows that the microeconomic structure of the financial sector is a crucial factor in creating the conditions for a crisis. Structural problems of the financial system in developing countries, including implicit...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014396313
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New Rates From New Weights
International Monetary Fund - 2005
This paper describes the result and the methodology of updating nominal and real effective exchange rate weights on the basis of trade data over 1999-2001. The underlying framework is an updated version of the IMF''s current effective exchange rate calculation, which uses weights largely based...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014400539
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Commodity Prices As a Leading Indicator of Inflation
International Monetary Fund - 1988
significantly improves the fit of regressions of a multi-country consumer price index. However, there does not appear to be a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014396014
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Review of the IMF's Trade Restrictiveness Index
International Monetary Fund - 2005
This paper examines the construction of the index and its use over the past seven years, identifies its limitations …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014410091
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Financial Sector Assessment Program Update : Republic of Poland - Credit, Growth, and Financial Stability
International Monetary Fund - 2013
loans are. The chapter is organized as follows: section II.B discusses credit developments in the last decade and factors …-country experiences with policy responses to rapid credit growth of foreign currency credit and discuss recent policy measures taken in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012560019
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Czech Republic, Republic of Estonia, Hungary, Republic of Latvia, Republic of Lithuania, Republic of Poland, Slovak Republic, and Republic of Slovenia : Export Structure and Credit...
International Monetary Fund - 2006
Of the new members entering the European Union (EU) in May 2004, several had achieved a decade of impressive export growth, expanding significantly their shares of world markets. The empirical analysis shows that over the period 1994–2004, quality and technology upgrading associated with the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014404829
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Credit Growth and the Effectiveness of Reserve Requirements and Other Macroprudential Instruments in Latin America
International Monetary Fund - 2012
procyclicality of bank credit dynamics to the private sector and contain systemic risk. Reserve requirements, in particular, have … new cross-country evidence on how they influence real private bank credit growth. Our results show that these instruments …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014396432
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Japan : Financial Sector Assessment Program—Technical Note on Credit Intermediation
International Monetary Fund - 2012
This paper is an analysis of Japan’s credit channel. The economic condition has no hindrance, but credit demand showed … aspects act as an impediment to credit control. The Executive Board expects restructuring of financial policies in government … this paper as a study of Japan’s thoughts in an efficient route to credit boom …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014395722
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Spain; Report on the Observance of Standards and Codes: Summary Assessments
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2012
This paper presents assessment results for the current state of the implementation of the Basel Core Principles for Effective Banking Supervision (BCP) in Spain. It found that significant changes have occurred in Spain since the last Financial Sector Assessment Program. The most serious has been...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011244598