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Australia : Addressing Systemic Risk Through Higher Loss Absorbency—Technical Note
International Monetary Fund - 2012
-based supervision, recovery and resolution planning, and conservative risk weights and definitions of loss absorbent capital. Most … countries that have already identified strategies to deal with their systemic institutions incorporate higher loss absorbency … institutions can gauge the amount of additional capital—higher loss absorbency—required to reduce the probability of failure of …
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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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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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The Fund's Lending Framework and Sovereign Debt : Annexes
International Monetary Fund - 2014
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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,...
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Jamaica SME Finance
International Monetary Fund - 2015
Almost all formal small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in Jamaica have access to checking or saving accounts, but the financial sector is scarcely used to finance their investments. The lack of funding for the SME sector, or its high cost, has a negative impact on entrepreneurship and business...
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Dynamic Loan Loss Provisioning; Simulationson Effectiveness and Guide to Implementation
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2012
This simulation-based paper investigates the impact of different methods of dynamic provisioning on bank soundness and shows that this increasingly popular macroprudential tool can smooth provisioning costs over the credit cycle and lower banks’ probability of default. In addition, the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011242397
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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...
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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...
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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