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Liquidity and Transparency in Bank Risk Management

Ratnovski, Lev - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2013

accumulate a buffer of liquid assets, or strengthen transparency to communicate solvency. While a liquidity buffer provides … bank may choose insufficient liquidity buffers and transparency. The regulatory response is constained: while liquidity … buffers can be imposed, transparency is not verifiable. Moreover, liquidity requirements can compromise banks' transparency …

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Indonesia; Anatomy of a Banking Crisis

Kovanen, Arto; Frécaut, Olivier; Baldwin, Barbara E.; … - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2001

This study looks at the first two years of the banking crisis that erupted in Indonesia in late 1997. It finds that the banking sector was weak at the outset, and that governance problems intensified the crisis and seriously delayed its resolution. Although a strategy was put in place over the...

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Externalities and Macroprudential Policy

Nicoló, Gianni De; Favara, Giovanni; Ratnovski, Lev - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2012

This note overviews macroprudential policy options that have been proposed to address the systemic risks experienced during the recent financial crisis. It contributes to the policy debate by providing a taxonomy of macroprudential policies in terms of the specific negative externalities in the...

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Shadow Banking; Economics and Policy

Claessens, Stijn; Ratnovski, Lev; Singh, Manmohan - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2012

This note outlines the basic economics of the shadow banking system, highlights (systemic) risks related to it, and suggests implications for measurement and regulatory approaches.

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Global Liquidity and Drivers of Cross-Border Bank Flows

Cerutti, Eugenio; Claessens, Stijn; Ratnovski, Lev - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2014

This paper provides a definition of global liquidity consistent with its meaning as the â€œease of financingâ€ in … also the cyclical impact of global liquidity, with sensitivities of flows to banks decreasing with stronger macroeconomic …

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Bailouts and Systemic Insurance

Dell'Ariccia, Giovanni; Ratnovski, Lev - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2013

We revisit the link between bailouts and bank risk taking. The expectation of government support to failing banks creates moral hazard—increases bank risk taking. However, when a bank’s success depends on both its effort and the overall stability of the banking system, a government’s...

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Reserve Requirementson Foreign Currency Deposits in Sub-Saharan Africa; Main Features and Policy Implications

Kovanen, Arto - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2002

This paper reviews the reserve requirement arrangements of sub-Saharan Africa, focusing on the differences between reserve requirements on domestic- and foreign-currency deposits. The reserve requirement systems in sub-Saharan Africa are relatively simple and transparent, but in some countries...

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On the Stability of Money Demand in Ghana; A Bounds Testing Approach

Kovanen, Arto; Dagher, Jihad - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2011

This paper adopts the bounds testing procedure developed by Pesaran et al. (2001) to test the stability of the long-run money demand for Ghana. The results provide strong evidence for the presence of a stable, well-identified long-run money demand during a period of substantial changes in the...

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Monetary Policy Transmission in Ghana; Does the Interest Rate Channel Work?

Kovanen, Arto - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2011

liquidity management. In the retail market, pass-through to deposit and lending interest rates is protracted and incomplete.1 …

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Why Are Canadian Banks More Resilient?

Huang, Rocco; Ratnovski, Lev - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2009

This paper explores factors behind Canadian banks' relative resilience in the ongoing credit turmoil. We identify two main causes: a higher share of depository funding (vs. wholesale funding) in liabilities, and a number of regulatory and structural factors in the Canadian market that reduced...

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