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This paper surveys that state of fiscal transparency in the wake of the current crisis and looks at what can be done to improve it. It examines the relationship between fiscal transparency and fiscal outcomes; reviews progress in promoting greater fiscal transparency over the past decade; considers...
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The rapid recovery in many low-income countries (LICs) following the global crisis has been sustained in 2012. Softening commodity prices have led to moderating inflation pressures in most LICs. However, progress in rebuilding policy buffers has halted over the past two years, despite continued...
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An assessment of vulnerabilities and risks in LICs remains important both for LICs themselves and for the international community. There are currently 74 LICs, eligible for concessional financing from the Fund. This group of countries has a total population of about 1.3 billion, with an average...
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The paper considers gains from international economic policy coordination when there is uncertainty concerning the … functioning of the world economy, but also learning about the “true” model on the part of policymakers. The paper reports …
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time-varying risk. Some work by Abel provided us with the insights needed to produce such formulas. This paper gives a …
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Europe is facing slower growth as a result of protracted financial turbulence and spillovers from the U.S. Meanwhile, inflation has risen sharply. Policymakers in advanced economies will have to continue to support financial markets and balance risks to real activity with the need to anchor...
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assess the interest rate risk carried by a sample of Indian banks in March 2002. We find evidence of substantial exposure to …
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of credit risk. ROC analysis is widely used in many fields, but in finance CAP analysis is more common. We compare the … two methods, using as an illustration the ability of the OECD’s country risk ratings to predict whether a country will … generating measures of accuracy that are independent of the choice of diagnostic threshold, such as risk rating. ROC analysis has …
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Claimants to SIFIs receive transfers when governments are forced into bailouts. Ex ante, the bailout expectation lowers daily funding costs. This funding cost differential reflects both the structural level of the government support and the time-varying market valuation for such a support. With...
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This paper discusses the estimation of models of the term structure of interest rates. After reviewing the term structure models, specifically the Nelson-Siegel Model and Affine Term- Structure Model, this paper estimates the terms structure of Treasury bond yields for the United States with...
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