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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...
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The unprecedented rise in nonperforming assets during the recent Asian financial crisis severely tested the limit and capacity of the existing asset management infrastructure, leading policymakers to consider new approaches to resolve them. This paper examines two such approaches—the creation...
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systems. Using novel risk-weighted indexes the paper examines whether the banking systems’ access to credit was related to … that both domestic and international risk factors contributed to the decline in international interbank borrowing during …
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Credit rating agencies face a difficult trade-off between delivering both accurate and stable ratings. In particular, its users have consistently expressed a preference for rating stability, driven by the transactions costs induced by trading when ratings change frequently. Rating agencies...
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For almost a decade, the IMF has been using stress tests to identify vulnerabilities across institutions that could undermine the stability of a country's financial system. This working paper focuses on the IMF's experience with stress testing in the Financial Sector Assessment Program (FSAP)....
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Portfolio credit risk measurement is greatly affected by data constraints, especially when focusing on loans given to … simply ignore the effects of macroeconomic shocks on credit risk. Aiming to improve the measurement of portfolio credit risk … macroeconomic shocks into credit risk, recovering robust estimators when only short time series of loans exist. CIMDO recovers …
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centered on Cihák (2007). The framework seeks enriching stress tests in terms of risk-sensitivity, while keeping them flexible …, transparent, and user-friendly. The main contributions include (a) increasing the risk-sensitivity of stress testing by capturing … changes in risk-weighted assets (RWAs) under stress, including for non-internal ratings based (IRB) banks (through a quasi …
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determined by stress tests. The main sources of risk lie in the credit risk arising from exposures to Central, Eastern, and … Southeastern Europe (CESE) and the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), indirect credit risk from foreign currency lending …, and credit risk from domestic lending. The Austrian banking systems exhibits ample liquidity. In-depth discussions with …
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Insurance regulation and supervision is of a high standard, and most of the enhancements suggested have been put in place. Further enhancements will be required, in the context of the forthcoming introduction of Solvency II requirements, in such areas as the frequency of onsite inspections, the...
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This paper reviews the Financial System Stability Assessment Update on the Philippines. The assessment reveals that the banking sector has been strengthened considerably since the Asian crisis of the late 1990s and today appears generally resilient to a broad range of macroeconomic risks. The...
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