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Netherlands; 2013 Article IV Consultation
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2013
The Netherlands is an AAA euro area (EA) economy with significant private sector imbalances. The main policy challenge is to restore growth and manage downside risks while allowing for an orderly adjustment of private sector balance sheets. A focus on medium-term objectives will cement policy...
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Post-Crisis Bank Behavior; Lessons From Mercosur
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2010
Did the occurrence of systemic banking crises in the 1990s and 2000s significantly alter the behavior of banks in the Mercosur? The objective of this paper is to answer this question by analyzing changes in bank behavior after crises in the Mercosur region. To our knowledge, this is the first...
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India; Financial Sector Assessment Program—Detailed Assessments Report on Basel Core Principles for Effective Banking Supervision
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2013
India. The Reserve Bank of India is to be commended for its tightly controlled regulatory and supervisory regime, consisting …
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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...
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Debt Relief and Leveraged Buy-Outs
International Monetary Fund - 1988
Analyses of debt relief that focus on the behavior of debtors and existing creditors understate the incentives for collective action by creditors. It is well known that debt relief could benefit existing creditors by providing incentives for domestic investment by residents of debtor countries....
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Tax Policy, Leverage and Macroeconomic Stability
International Monetary Fund - 2016
Risks to macroeconomic stability posed by excessive private leverage are significantly amplified by tax distortions. 'Debt bias' (tax provisions favoring finance by debt rather than equity) has increased leverage in both the household and corporate sectors, and is now widely recognized as a...
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Bank Consolidation and Performance : The Argentine Experience
International Monetary Fund - 2004
We examine a large panel of more than 100 banks from Argentina to study the effects of bank consolidation on performance between December 1995 and December 2000, a period of heavy bank consolidation and relative calm. Overall, we find a positive and significant effect of bank consolidation on...
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India Financial Sector Assessment Program : Basel Core Principles for Effective Banking Supervision
International Monetary Fund - 2018
This assessment of the implementation of the BCP in India has been completed as part of the Financial Sector Assessment …
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India Financial Sector Assessment Program Update : Securities Regulation
World Bank Group - 2017
This Technical Note examines India's securities market and the regulatory system overseeing the securities market and … market participants. It is based upon a mission to Mumbai, India from March 14 - 31, 2017, conducted as one component of a … occurred in India's securities markets since the last assessment and the changes that have occurred in the regulation of this …
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Competition in Indian Banking
International Monetary Fund - 2005
It is widely perceived that competition in the Indian banking sector has increased since the inception of the financial sector reforms in 1992. Using annual data on scheduled commercial banks for the period 1996-2004, the paper evaluates the validity of this claim in the Indian context. The...
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