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Per Jacobsson Lecture : What Financial System for the Twenty-First Century?
International Monetary Fund - 2011
This paper describes a financial system that should be adopted for the 21st century. The paper highlights that the financial crisis of 2008 has raised fundamental questions about how the financial industry is structured, managed, and regulated. The paper discusses that a well-functioning...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014397983
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The International Monetary 1972-1978 : Cooperation on Trial Volume III: Documents
International Monetary Fund - 1996
IMF economists work closely with member countries on a variety of issues. Their unique perspective on country experiences and best practices on global macroeconomic issues are often shared in the form of books on diverse topics such as cross-country comparisons, capacity building, macroeconomic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014397620
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Adequacy of the Global Financial Safety Net : Proposal for a New Policy Coordination Instrument
International Monetary Fund - 2017
The global financial safety net (GFSN) has become larger and more decentralized, creating a need for greater coordination. The expanded GFSN has created multiple sources of official financing for countries in need of support to address balance of payments shocks. Enhanced coordination among...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014408711
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Proposed Features of a Sovereign Debt Restructuring Mechanism
International Monetary Fund - 2003
This paper follows up on the Executive Board's December 2002 discussion of the design of the Sovereign Debt Restructuring Mechanism and seeks to make further progress on the formulation of a concrete proposal for a statutory sovereign debt restructuring mechanism
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014409727
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Draft Revised Code of Good Practices on Fiscal Transparency
International Monetary Fund - 2006
The IMF is in the process of revising its 2001 Code of Good Practices on Fiscal Transparency. The four core principles of the original Code remain unchanged in the revision: institutional clarity, open budget processes, public information and integrity. However, the document has been updated and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014409790
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Enhancing International Monetary Stability : A Role for the SDR?
International Monetary Fund - 2011
The SDR has enjoyed renewed attention lately in the context of debates on international monetary reform. To be sure, the term SDR has been used to refer to three different concepts-(i) a composite reserve asset created in 1969: the 'official SDR' as defined in the Fund's Articles; (ii) a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014410306
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Per Jacobsson Lecture : Central Banking in the Crisis: Conceptual Convergence and Open Questions on Unconventional Monetary Policy
International Monetary Fund - 2014
demanding and difficult times, characterized by a succession of shocks unseen, in the advanced economies, since World War II … of the crisis would have accentuated their differences and given rise to an even more diverse setof central bank policies … bank cooperation ever, as symbolically illustrated by the coordinated decrease of interest rates in October 2008. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014411203
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COVID-19 : The Regulatory and Supervisory Implications for the Banking Sector
International Monetary Fund - 2020
This note provides a set of high-level recommendations that can guide national regulatory and supervisory responses to the COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic and offers an overview of measures taken across jurisdictions to date. The banking sector plays a critical role in mitigating the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012647142
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Borrowing Agreement with the Bank of Slovenia
International Monetary Fund - 2010
payments assistance to its members, the Bank of Slovenia agrees to lend to the Fund an SDR-denominated amount up to the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014410146
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From Banking to Sovereign Stress : Implications For Public Debt
International Monetary Fund - 2014
This paper explores how banking sector developments and characteristics influence the propagation of risks from the banking sector to sovereign debt, including how they affect the extent of fiscal costs of banking crises when those occur. It then proposes practices and policies for the fiscal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014410683