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Risk Exposures and Financial Spillovers in Tranquil and Crisis Times; Bank-Level Evidence
Poirson, Hélène; Schmittmann, Jochen M. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2013
For a sample of 83 financial institutions during 2003–2011, this paper attempts to answer three questions: first, what is the evolution of banks’ stock price exposure to country-level and global risk factors as approximated by equity indices; second, which bank-specific characteristics...
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Global Bonding; Do U.S. Bond and Equity Spillovers Dominate Global Financial Markets?
Bayoumi, Tamim; Bui, Trung - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2012
financial markets and spillovers from Europe to Japan. The results also suggest that the uncertainty about the direction of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011242378
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Regional Labor Market Adjustments in the United States and Europe
Dao, Mai; Furceri, Davide; Loungani, Prakash - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2014
is typically larger in Europe than in the US, the immediate response of net migration in Europe has increased over time. …
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The Global Impact of the Systemic Economies and MENA Business Cycles
Cashin, Paul; Mohaddes, Kamiar; Raissi, Mehdi - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2012
This paper analyzes spillovers from macroeconomic shocks in systemic economies (China, the Euro Area, and the United States) to the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region as well as outward spillovers from a GDP shock in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries and MENA oil exporters to...
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Assessing the Cost of Financial Regulation
Elliott, Douglas; Santos, Andre - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2012
This study assesses the overall impact on credit of the financial regulatory reforms in Europe, Japan, and the United … higher taxes and fees. Overall, average lending rates in the base case would rise by 18 bps in Europe, 8 bps in Japan, and 28 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010790407
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The Making of a Continental Financial System: Lessons for Europe from Early American History
Gaspar, Vitor - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2014
. In the end, the U.S. possessed a modern financial system able to finance innovation and growth. At a time when Europe is …
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Made in Mexico: Energy Reform and Manufacturing Growth
Alvarez, Jorge; Valencia, Fabian - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2015
energy prices, we find electricity prices––relative to oil and gas––to be more important in the manufacturing process …, with a one standard deviation reduction in electricity prices leading to a 2.8 percent increase in manufacturing output …. Our estimated elasticities together with plausible reductions in electricity tariffs derived from the energy reform, could …
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Growth in Switzerland; Can Better Performance Be Sustained?
Gagales, Anastassios - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2002
Swiss growth performance in the past quarter century has been mediocre. The paper finds that conditional income convergence contributes significantly to slow growth and the poor performance of the domestically oriented sectors has been a drag on growth. However, slow growth is not inescapable....
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Rapid Current Account Adjustments; Are Microstates Different?
Imam, Patrick A. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2008
We describe unique aspects of microstates-they are less diversified, suffer from lumpiness of investment, they are geographically at the periphery and prone to natural disasters, and have less access to capital markets-that may make the current account more vulnerable, penalizing exports and...
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Nonfinancial Firms in Latin America; A Source of Vulnerability?
Gonzalez, Maria - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2012
We examine corporate sector vulnerabilities in Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico and Peru. First, we identify stylized facts based on corporate financial indicators. Second, we assess vulnerability of individual firms to a sudden stop in financing through a probit model, using a panel of 18...
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