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Jamaica Consumer Protection and Financial Literacy
International Monetary Fund - 2015
This technical note is based on a mission conducted from April 24 to May 9, 2014 to Kingston and other parts of Jamaica. The mission also conducted a short mystery shopping exercise with the assistance of a representative from the national consumer’s league. Valuable comments on the draft note...
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Portugal : Financial Sector Assessment Program: Technical Note: Investor Protection, Disclosure, and Financial Literacy
International Monetary Fund - 2007
This technical note on Investor Protection, Disclosure, and Financial Literacy for Portugal explains investor protection and corporate governance. Comissão do Mercado de Valores Mobiliários (CMVM) is the regulator in charge on ensuring compliance with disclosure issues as well as the corporate...
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Australia : Financial Sector Assessment Program: Technical Note: Investor Protection, Disclosure, and Financial Literacy
International Monetary Fund - 2006
This study reviews selected issues on investor protection and corporate governance in Australia, and concludes that the corporate governance framework for Australian-listed companies is largely healthy and dynamic. Shareholder activism is an important element of corporate governance because it...
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Taxation and the Cost of Capital in Hungary and Poland : A Comparison with Selected European Countries
International Monetary Fund - 1990
This paper compares the effective rates of taxation faced by a representative investor located in a major capital-exporting country for investments in machinery and buildings in nine capital-importing European countries. Poland and Hungary are found to have relatively high effective tax rates on...
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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 …
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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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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 …
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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 …
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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...
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Optimal Fiscal Policy and Government Provision of Contingent Liabilities : The Example of Government Loan and Deposit Guarantees
International Monetary Fund - 1989
The optimal provision of loan guarantees or deposit insurance is examined in the context of an overlapping generations model. It is demonstrated that even in the face of a market imperfection that precludes diversification of the private sector’s loan portfolio to eliminate risk, full...
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