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This Selected Issues paper on Canada examines economic development and policies. Capital ratios before the crisis have been a key determinant of bank performance during the turmoil; and Canadian banks had ample capital. Specifically, most banks with critically low capital at end-2006 later...
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This Selected Issues paper analyzes the housing prices, consumption, and the household debt overhang in the Netherlands …. Deflated housing prices that were fueled by robust borrowing often leave in their wake households with heavy debt burden. This … using a three-stage least squares approach. Empirical results are supportive of the hypothesis that housing prices strongly …
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stabilizing strategies, removal of fiscal cliff uncertainties, effective implementation of housing, and labor market holstering …
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This 2013 Article IV Consultation highlights that after a brief stabilization in 2010, the recession in the Slovenia resumed in 2011 and the economy now has contracted for eight consecutive quarters. Although a sharp contraction in investment was the main driver of the downturn in the early...
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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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remained well below the levels reached after earlier recessions. The housing market has cooled, owing in part to macro …
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resilient to credit, liquidity, and contagion risks arising from a severe stress scenario. Elevated housing prices and high …
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financial structure infrastructure. Issues related to the development of housing, pension, and insurance are also discussed. …
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The Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (SAR)'s healthy labor market and supportive fiscal policy helped its domestic economy's resilience, while its gross domestic product (GDP) growth was marginally slow owing to its weak external environment. Its fiscal policy has been effective in...
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demand remains solid. Inflation is expected to remain at about 4 percent, given the slow pass-through of housing costs. In …
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