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Spain : Financial Sector Assessment Program: Technical Note: Housing Prices, Household Debt, and Financial Stability
International Monetary Fund - 2006
This report reviews the macroeconomic determinants of the rapid growth in the Spanish housing market, including various policy elements. It examines the vulnerabilities of households' finances as a result of the rapid growth of housing prices and mortgage debt. It also describes the Spanish...
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Handbook on Residential Property Prices (RPPIs)
Statistical Office of the European Communities - 2013
written by leading academics in index number theory and by recognised experts in RPPIs compilation. Its development has been …
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Collateralized Transactions : Key Considerations for Public Lenders and Borrowers
International Monetary Fund - 2020
In a response to a request from the G20 IFA Working Group, this note provides a framework for public lenders and borrowers to assess collateralized financing practices from a development perspective. The work of the IMF and World Bank suggests that the availability of collateralized financing...
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Endogeneity in Structural Unemployment Equations : The Case of Canada
International Monetary Fund - 1993
This paper examines the endogeneity of several structural variables which enter unemployment rate equations—the generosity of unemployment benefits, nonwage labor costs, the relative minimum wage, and the degree of unionization. It finds evidence of reverse causality for these structural...
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Belgium; Selected Issues
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2006
This Selected Issues paper for Belgium evaluates whether price increases in Belgium are excessive. It assesses the household and bank balance sheets and their vulnerability to a slowdown in housing prices, and identifies differences in real estate markets between Belgium and other countries. The...
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Financial Soundness Indicators; Analytical Aspects and Country Practices
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2002
The financial turmoil of the late 1990s prompted a broad search for tools and techniques for detecting and preventing financial crises, and more recent episodes of instability have high lighted the importance of continuous monitoring of financial systems as a tool for preventing crises. This...
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Are House Prices Rising too Fast in Hong Kong SAR?
International Monetary Fund - 2010
Sharp increase in house prices in Hong Kong SAR in 2009-2010 has led to concerns of an emerging real estate bubble. According to our measure of price deviation from fundamentals, which should be taken as an early warning indicator of market exuberance, the current level of house prices in Hong...
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Poverty Reduction and Growth Trust : 2016-17 Borrowing Agreements with the Government of Canada, De Nederlandsche Bank NV, and the Bank of Korea
International Monetary Fund - 2017
agreement with the Government of Canada (Canada), and has entered into amendments to the 2010 borrowing agreement with De … with Canada and the amendments to the borrowing agreements with The Netherlands and Korea will each provide new resources …
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Borrowing Agreement with the Government of Canada
International Monetary Fund - 2009
Canada and the Fund. The Government of Canada announced its willingness to lend up to USD 10 billion to the Fund to support …
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Canada : Selected Issues
International Monetary Fund - 2005
This Selected Issues paper for Canada presents comprehensive and broad-based analysis of the role of domestic and … external shocks. Canada’s economic history illustrates the important role played by external as well as domestic macroeconomic … disturbances. Canada’s economy slowed in 2001 because of the global slowdown, although by less than in many other countries. In …
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