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Optimal Reserves in the Eastern Caribbean Currency Union
Samuel, Wendell A.; Pineda, Emilio; Dehesa, Mario - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2009
Recent turbulence in global and Caribbean regional financial markets underscore the importance of reassessing the adequacy of international reserves held by the Eastern Caribbean Central Bank (ECCB). Using the Jeanne (2007) optimization framework, this paper finds that international reserves...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004999976
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Financial Stress, Downturns, and Recoveries
Lall, Subir; Cardarelli, Roberto; Elekdag, Selim - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2009
stress-in particular banking distress-on the real economy. It concludes that financial turmoil characterized by banking …, due to the greater procyclicality of leverage in their banking systems. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004999977
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Real Estate Market Developments and Financal Sector Soundness
Hilbers, Paul Louis Ceriel; Zacho, Lisbeth; Lei, Qin - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2001
This paper analyses the characteristics and functioning of real estate markets. It focuses on the relationship between developments in these markets and the financial sector to determine under what circumstances real estate booms and busts can develop and how they can affect the health and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005248144
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Introduction to Applied Stress Testing
Cihák, Martin - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2007
Stress testing is a useful and increasingly popular, yet sometimes misunderstood, method of analyzing the resilience of financial systems to adverse events. This paper aims to help demystify stress tests, and illustrate their strengths and weaknesses. Using an Excel-based exercise with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005248151
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Cost and Effectiveness of Banking Sector Restructuring in Transition Economies
Zoli, Edda - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2001
-98. It argues that country-specific banking sector features, the size of bad loans inherited from the centrally planned … costs and overall improvement in banking sector performance for the sample countries as a whole. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005248153
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A Simple Model of An International Lender of Last Resort
Huang, Haizhou; Goodhart, C. A. E. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2000
many open economies, each with a banking system and a central bank operating under a pegged exchange rate regime. The … fragility of the banking system and the limited ability of a domestic central bank to provide international liquidity together … can cause currency and banking crises. An international interbank market can help an economy with the needed international …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005248186
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Loan Review, Provisioning, and Macroeconomic Linkages
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2000
Loan review is a process routinely used by banks to assess the current value of loan portfolios. Provisioning is a technique to translate loan review results into the balance sheet. It allows for ongoing valuation of loans. Both are core elements of credit risk management and important to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005248195
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The Bank Lending Channel of Monetary Transmission; Does it Work in Turkey?
Brooks, Petya Koeva - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2007
on loan supply in Turkey. This suggests that the effect of monetary policy in Turkey can be propagated by the banking …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005248226
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Did the Basel Accord Cause a Credit Slowdown in Latin America?
Cosimano, Thomas F.; Chami, Ralph; Barajas, Adolfo - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2005
Drawing from a unique data set comprising 2,893 banks and 152 countries over the period 1987 to 2000, we test whether the adoption of the Basel Accord by Latin American and Caribbean countries was responsible for the serious slowdowns in credit growth experienced by these countries. We find...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005248279
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Retail Bank Interest Rate Pass-Through; Is Chile Atypical?
Rebucci, Alessandro; Espinosa-Vega, Marco A - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2003
This paper investigates empirically the pass-through of money market interest rates to retail banking interest rates in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005248289