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Mexico: Staff Report for the 2013 Article IV Consultation
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2013
This 2013 Article IV Consultation highlights that over the past year, Mexico has maintained macroeconomic policy …
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Mexico; Arrangement Under the Flexible Credit Line and Cancellation of the Current Arrangement—Staff Report; Staff Supplement; and Press Release on the Executive Board Discussion...
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2012
The report discusses the important role of the Flexible Credit Line (FCL) in helping Mexico to survive in the fragile … global economic environment. The FCL’s contribution in maintaining an orderly financial market in Mexico is noteworthy. IMF … staff reaffirms their commitment toward Mexico in taking the necessary actions to manage unforeseen risks. According to the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011242587
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Mexico; Staff Report for the 2012 Article IV Consultation
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2012
buffer against risks that erupted during the global economic crisis. Mexico has been identified as a prudent and fairly well …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011242784
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Financial innovation, the Discovery of Risk, and the U.S. Credit Crisis
Mendoza, Enrique G.; Boz, Emine - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2010
Uncertainty about the riskiness of new financial products was an important factor behind the U.S. credit crisis. We show that a boom-bust cycle in debt, asset prices and consumption characterizes the equilibrium dynamics of a model with a collateral constraint in which agents learn "by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008560424
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Can Covered Bonds Resuscitate Residential Mortgage Finance in the United States?
Surti, Jay - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2010
This paper considers the case for mortgage covered bonds as an alternative to the originate-to-distribute mortgage funding model. It argues that the economic incentives provided to market participants under the covered bonds model are less susceptible to moral hazard even while retaining the key...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008777017
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011242342
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External Linkages and Policy Constraints in Saudi Arabia
Westelius, Niklas J - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2013
The constraints that external linkages impose on domestic policy choices in Saudi Arabia have continuously evolved over the past four decades. This paper argues that two major ongoing developments in particular have affected and will continue to affect policy trade-offs. First, growing oil needs...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011142130
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Rwanda; Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2008
Rwanda’s Economic Development and Poverty Reduction Strategy provides a medium-term framework for achieving the country’s long-term development goals and aspirations as embodied in Rwanda Vision 2020, the seven-year Government of Rwanda programme, and the Millennium Development...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011244912
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Kingdom of Lesotho; Joint Staff Advisory Note on the National Strategic Development Plan
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2012
Lesotho’s National Strategic Development Plan (NSDP) serves as an implementation strategy for the national vision. It recognizes the significant challenges Lesotho faces in reducing poverty and making growth more broad-based. Overall, it presents a coherent analysis and offers an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011245226
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Liberia; Joint Staff Advisory Note of the Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2008
Liberia’s Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper highlights the civil war as the underlying cause of extreme poverty. A major challenge for the government is to attract more donor aid and private investment in the provision of infrastructure given its own limited budget and the constraints on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011245429