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A General Equilibrium Model with Informal Financial Markets
International Monetary Fund - 1991
The paper presents a general equilibrium framework for short-run macroeconomic analysis in a developing country context where controls on interest rates and foreign exchange restrictions lead to the emergence of informal financial markets. The complexity of the model precludes an analytical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014397805
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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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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014395722
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Sources of Contagion : Finance or Trade?
International Monetary Fund - 1999
This paper presents evidence that spillovers through bank lending, as opposed to trade linkages and country characteristics, can help explain contagion. We construct a measure of competition for bank funds and find evidence in favor of a common lender effect in the Mexican, Thai, and Russian...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014401017
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Spillovers Through Banking Centers : A Panel Data Analysis
International Monetary Fund - 2000
To test the role of bank lending in transmitting currency crisis we examine a panel of BIS data on bank flows to 30 emerging markets disaggregated by 11 banking centers. We find that bank exposures to a crisis country help predict bank flows in third countries after the Mexican and Asian crisis,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014399830
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014407912
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Republic of Tajikistan; Financial System Stability Assessment, including Reports on Observance of Standards and Codes on the following topics, Banking Supervision, and Monetary and...
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2008
The Republic of Tajikistan’s Financial System Stability Assessment and reports on the Observance of Standards and Codes are examined. The Tajik financial system is small despite recent rapid growth. Overall, banks remain well capitalized and liquid, but the brisk expansion of their loan...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011242580
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Iceland; Financial System Stability Assessment: Update
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2008
This paper presents an update on Iceland’s Financial System Stability Assessment. Liquidity ratios, while high, now depend more than before on access to central banks’ liquidity facilities because of the turmoil in global markets, and any reduction in such access would require...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011242584
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Mexico; Financial System Stability Assessment Update, including Summary Assessments on the Observance of Financial Sector Standards and Codes on the following topics: The Basel Cor...
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2006
Policies implemented over the last decade have strengthened economic fundamentals and brought macroeconomic stability. Major improvements in compliance with the Basel Core Principles for Effective Banking Supervision and the implementation of International Organization of Securities Commission...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011242678
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Turkey; Financial System Stability Assessment
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2007
This Financial System Stability Assessment on Turkey discusses macroeconomic development and trend in the financial system. The financial system does not appear to face major immediate threats, but vulnerabilities remain. Turkey remains dependent on capital inflows and thus on international...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011244120