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Toward a Framework for Systemic Liquidity Policy
Hobbs, J. Kimball; Dziobek, Claudia Helene; Marston, David - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2000
International policy efforts to strengthen financial systems have highlighted the role of liquidity. This paper … explores a framework to assess arrangements for market liquidity and lays out elements of systemic liquidity policy. Robust … arrangements for liquidity provide confidence to market participants that liquidity can be mobilized on demand in a predictable and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005604876
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What Drives the POLONIA Spread in Poland?
Lu, Yinqiu - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2012
the existence of the structural liquidity in the banking system; bank’s unwillingness to lock up liquidity in the NBP … also shows the effectiveness of the NBP’s responses to the financial crisis and structural liquidity surplus. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011142119
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The Determinants of Banks' Liquidity Buffers in Central America
Delechat, Corinne; Arbelaez, Camila Henao; Muthoora, … - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2012
Banks’ liquidity holdings are comfortably above legal or prudential requirements in most Central American countries …. While good for financial stability, high systemic liquidity may nonetheless hinder monetary policy transmission and … precautionary liquidity buffers is associated with measures of bank size, profitability, capitalization, and financial development …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011142020
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Developing Essential Financial Markets in Smaller Economies; Stylized Facts and Policy Options
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2008
This paper surveys the foreign exchange markets, money and secondary government security markets, and stock exchanges in 107 smaller economy countries. The underdevelopment of these markets impedes risk transfer, monetary policy, corporate financing, and the capacity to absorb capital inflows....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011245902
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Access to Bank Credit in Sub-Saharan Africa; Key Issues and Reform Strategies
Sacerdoti, Emilio - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2005
This study discusses issues of access to bank credit in Sub-Saharan Africa, and examines measures that could help facilitate access by the private sector to bank credit. It reviews in particular obstacles to credit small- and medium-scale enterprises and agriculture, and examines progress in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005264006
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Managing Financial Crises; Recent Experience and Lessons for Latin America
Kincaid, G. Russell; Collyns, Charles - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2003
This paper seeks to draw lessons from the IMF’s experience in handling financial crises around the globe over the past ten years that are relevant to the challenges faced by countries in Latin America, especially in the wake of the recent crisis in Argentina. Experience suggests that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005824823
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Financial Sector Reforms and Prospects for Financial Integration in Maghreb Countries
Sole, Juan; Sensenbrenner, Gabriel; Tahari, Amor; … - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2007
A healthy and dynamic financial sector is essential to achieving high and sustainable economic growth in the Maghreb region-Algeria, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, and Tunisia. Financial integration within the Maghreb region will help deepen financial markets, increase their efficiency, and enhance...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005825882
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Issues in Managing and Sequencing Financial Sector Reforms Lessons From Experiences in Five Developing Countries
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 1992
A review of the experience of five developing countries in reforming their financial systems illustrates the benefits and risks, and provides lessons on the factors which contribute to successful financial sector reforms. Financial sector reforms need to be supported by active monetary policy,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005825950
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Excess Liquidity and the Effectiveness of Monetary Policy; Evidence From Sub-Saharan Africa
Saxegaard, Magnus - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2006
This paper examines the pattern of excess liquidity in sub-Saharan Africa and its consequences for the effectiveness of … monetary policy. The paper argues that understanding the consequences of excess liquidity requires quantifying the extent to … which commercial bank holdings of excess liquidity exceed levels required for precautionary purposes. It proposes a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005826003
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The Federal Reserve System Balance Sheet-What Happened and Why it Matters
Stella, Peter - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2009
The recent expansion of the balance sheet of the consolidated Federal Reserve Banks (FRB) is analyzed in an historical context. The analysis reveals that the nature of Fed involvement in U.S. financial markets has changed dramatically and its expansion is several orders of magnitude beyond what...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008528678