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Sovereign Insurance and Program Design; What is Optimal for the Sovereign?
Messmacher, Miguel - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2006
The design of the optimal sovereign insurance contract is analyzed when: the sovereign chooses the contract; effort is not contractible; shocks are of uncertain magnitude; the sovereign can save; and the sovereign can default. Under these conditions: i) an ex ante premium leads to higher coverage;...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005263743
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From Crisis to Recovery in Korea; Strategy, Achievements, and Lessons
Kang, Kenneth; Liang, Hong; Ma, Henry; Richards, Anthony J. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2001
This paper reviews and draws lessons from the stabilization and reform program that Korea implemented in response to the 1997-98 crisis. The economy recovered quickly from the deep recession in 1998 and its vulnerability to a balance of payments crisis has been reduced sharply. Significant...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005825786
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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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Out of the Box Thoughts About the International Financial Architecture
Eichengreen, Barry J. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2009
international financial architecture that might be implemented over the next ten years. It proposes routinizing the expansion of IMF … transactions, which would require someone-like the IMF-to act as market maker. It considers proposals for reimposing Glass …. Again there is likely to be a role for the IMF. Then there are arguments for a new agency or institution to deal with cross …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008528699
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Samoa; Assessment of Financial Sector Supervision and Regulation including Report on the Observance of Standards and Codes on Banking Supervision
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2007
This assessment of Financial Sector Supervision and Regulation for Samoa provides an overview of legal and institutional frameworks. Compliance with the Basel Core Principles (BCPs) for the supervision of international and domestic banks has improved considerably. Supervision of domestic banks...
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Bangladesh; Statistical Appendix
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2007
In recent years, the IMF has released a growing number of reports and other documents covering economic and financial …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011245720
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Internationalization of Emerging Market Currencies; A Balance Between Risks and Rewards
Ahmed, Faisal; Wang, Shengzu; Lago, Isabelle Mateos y; … - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2011
Staff Discussion Notes showcase the latest policy-related analysis and research being developed by individual IMF staff …
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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....
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Macroeconomic Implications of Financial Dollarization; The Case of Uruguay
Gelos, Gaston; Mejía, Alejandro López; Piñón-Farah, … - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2008
Uruguay has experienced a remarkable recovery since the 2002 crisis, supported by sound policies and favorable external conditions. With the framework put in place in 2002, Uruguay abandoned an exchange rate peg in favor of a free float, adoped a monetary regime initially based on money targets,...
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Capital Markets and Financial Intermediation in The Baltics
Sheridan, Niamh; Schipke, Alfred; George, Susan Mary; … - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2004
In just over a decade after independence, the three Baltic countries, Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania, have transformed themselves into fully functioning, small open-market economies that will be joining the European Union. Capital Markets and Financial Intermediation in The Baltics analyzes the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005248055