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Risk Sharing and Financial Contagion in Asia; An Asset Price Perspective
Rungcharoenkitkul, Phurichai - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2011
This paper assesses financial integration in Asia in terms of risk-sharing benefit versus financial-contagion cost. We … discount factors. Risk sharing is low in Asia, and varies across time and countries, whereas contagion risks are more … differentials. Asia, therefore, can potentially enhance risk sharing without raising contagion risk. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009369441
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Asian Flu or Wall Street Virus? Price and Volatility Spillovers of the Tech and Non-Tech Sectors in the United States and Asia
Chan-Lau, Jorge A.; Ivaschenko, Iryna V. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2002
This paper, using T-GARCH models, finds that the United States has been the major source of price and volatility spillovers to stock markets in the Asian region during three different periods in the last decade: the pre-Long Term Capital Management crisis period, the "tech bubble" period, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005768786
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Financial Versus Monetary Mercantilism; Long-Run View of the Large International Reserves Hoarding
Lee, Jaewoo; Aizenman, Joshua - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2006
-run perspective, manufacturing exporters in East Asia adopted financial mercantilism-subsidizing the cost of capital- during decades …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005768855
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Bond Markets As Conduits for Capital Flows; How Does Asia Compare?
Luengnaruemitchai, Pipat; Eichengreen, Barry J. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2006
of financial integration or interrelatedness, asking how Asia compares with Europe and Latin America and with the base … more financially integrated than other regions. Asia, more interestingly, already seems to have made more progress on this … sample suggest that one factor holding back investment in foreign bonds in East Asia may be limited geographical …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005769016
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Financial Sector Surveillance and the IMF
Gola, Carlo; Spadafora, Francesco - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2009
The global financial crisis has magnified the role of Financial Sector Surveillance (FSS) in the Fund's activities. This paper surveys the various steps and initiatives through which the Fund has increasingly deepened its involvement in FSS. Overall, this process can be characterized by a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008540920
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Determinants of Credit Growth and Interest Margins in the Philippines and Asia
Tan, Tatum Blaise Pua - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2012
Despite robust deposit growth, credit growth has been sluggish in the Philippines. We attribute this to legacy weaknesses in bank balance sheets, consumption-led economic growth, and relatively high net interest margins. Bank-level analysis suggests that interest margins in the Philippines rise...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010790364
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Policy Responses to Capital Flows in Emerging Markets
Pradhan, Mahmood; Balakrishnan, Ravi; Baqir, Reza; … - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2011
Staff Discussion Notes showcase the latest policy-related analysis and research being developed by individual IMF staff and are published to elicit comment and to further debate. These papers are generally brief and written in nontechnical language, and so are aimed at a broad audience...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010790479
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Impact of the Global Crisison Banking Sector Soundness in Asian Low-Income Countries
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2011
The paper takes stock of the impact of the global financial crisis that began in late 2007 on banking sectors of Asian low-income countries, by exploring bank-level data provided by Bankscope. The paper examines three key channels of possible crisis spillovers: exposures to (i) valuation changes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009147328
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Developing Asean5 Bond Markets; What Still Needs to Be Done?
Gray, Simon; Jobst, Andreas; Felman, Joshua; Carvajal, Ana - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2011
This paper examines a range of issues relating to bond markets in the ASEAN5 (Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore and Thailand) - physical infrastructure including trading, clearing and settlement; regulation, supervision and legal underpinnings; and derivatives markets - and finds that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009151209
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The Development of Local Debt Markets in Asia
Goswami, Mangal; Sharma, Sunil - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2011
The paper makes an assessment of the progress made in developing local debt markets in emerging Asia. Market … scale, efficiency, and access. With rapid economic growth in Asia, a key challenge is to generate financial assets that can …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009151210