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Saving-Investment Correlations : Immobile Capital. Government Policy or Endogenous Behavior?
International Monetary Fund - 1989
This paper analyzes reasons for the high post-war correlations of saving and investment, both across countries and over time. It is concluded that the main reason for the observed high correlations over the recent period is probably government policy
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014396226
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Moreon the Effectiveness of Public Spendingon Health Care and Education : A Covariance Structure Model
International Monetary Fund - 2002
Using data for a sample of developing and transition countries, this paper estimates the relationship between government spending on health care and education, and social indicators. Unlike previous studies, where social indicators are used as proxies for the unobservable health and education...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014399239
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Fiscal Transparency, Accountability, and Risk
International Monetary Fund - 2012
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014410215
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Fat Tails and their (Un)Happy Endings : Correlation Bias and its Implications for Systemic Risk and Prudential Regulation
International Monetary Fund - 2011
The correlation bias refers to the fact that claim subordination in the capital structure of the firm influences claim … holders’ preferred degree of asset correlation in portfolios held by the firm. Using the copula capital structure model, it is … shown that the correlation bias shifts shareholder preferences towards highly correlated assets, making financial …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014401318
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A Noteon Saving-Investment Correlations in the EMS
International Monetary Fund - 1990
This paper extends recent work by Feldstein and Horioka (1980) and Bayoumi (1990), and examines saving-investment correlations for industrial countries in the post-war period. The focus of the enquiry is on differences observed between EMS and non-EMS countries. It is seen that the EMS countries...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014396141
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Sweden; Financial Sector Assessment Program Update: Technical Note on Contingent Claims Analysis Approach to Measure Risk and Stress Test the Swedish Banking Sector
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2011
, a risk-adjusted balance sheet relating bank asset values to equity value, default risk, and bank funding costs. Even … though the results show that banks are found to be resilient to shocks, more work on systemic risk models could help analyze … systemic risk under stress scenarios. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011245016
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Macrofinancial Linkages of the Strategic Asset Allocation of Commodity-Based Sovereign Wealth Funds
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2010
This paper analyses the links between the investment strategies of a commodity-based SWF and the macroeconomic framework of the owner country. We examine some basic macrofinancial linkages of an SWF's strategic asset allocation (SAA) strategies with regard to the government budget, monetary...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008561093
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Guarding Against Fiscal Risks in Hong Kong SAR
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2007
describing the risks associated with aging, the paper uses value at risk techniques to measure the value of the unanticipated …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005599716
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Fat Tails and their (Un)Happy Endings; Correlation Bias and its Implications for Systemic Risk and Prudential Regulation
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2011
The correlation bias refers to the fact that claim subordination in the capital structure of the firm influences claim … holders’ preferred degree of asset correlation in portfolios held by the firm. Using the copula capital structure model, it … is shown that the correlation bias shifts shareholder preferences towards highly correlated assets, making financial …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009019569
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Asset Prices and Time-Varying Risk
International Monetary Fund - 1988
time-varying risk. Some work by Abel provided us with the insights needed to produce such formulas. This paper gives a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014396175