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The G-20 Data Gaps Initiative has called for the IMF to develop standard measures of tail risk, which we identify in this paper with systemic risk. To understand the conditions under which tail risk is present, it is first necessary to develop a measure of what constitutes a systemic stress, or...
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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...
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This paper tests the role of different banks' liquidity funding structures in explaining the banks' failures, which … explaining banks' probability of default. By confirming the role of funding as the driver of banking crisis, the paper also … to strenghten banks' liquidity conditions and improve financial stability. Its correct implementation together with …
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The paper provides an empirical analysis of aggregate banking system ratios during systemic banking crises. Drawing upon a wide cross-country dataset, we utilize parametric and nonparametric tests to assess the power of these ratios to discriminate between sound and unsound banking systems. We...
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Many empirical studies of banking crises have employed "banking crisis" (BC) indicators constructedusing primarily information on government actions undertaken in response to bank distress. Weformulate a simple theoretical model of a banking industry which we use to identify and...
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Interventions in banks are often an integral element of a government’s program for addressing a systemic banking crisis …. Interventions may be warranted because the banks are deeply insolvent or riddled with fraud; they may be requiring substantial … banks in a systemic crisis. …
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The recent global financial crisis has forced a re-examination of risk transmission in the financial sector and how it affects financial stability. Current macroprudential policy and surveillance (MPS) efforts are aimed establishing a regulatory framework that helps mitigate the risk from...
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This article is an overview of existing deposit insurance in the European Union. There are various national deposit schemes that form the source of insurance. The schemes come up with various coverage, contributions, and fund sizes. The recent financial crisis has brought about a change in the...
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for official financial support to stem systemic crisis is appropriate. The current framework for resolving ailing banks in … going could be strengthened considerably. The framework for the orderly liquidation of banks could be strengthened and fine …
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This Selected Issues paper summarizes estimates of the gap between current housing prices and their equilibrium levels in the United States. It examines short-term dynamics of price adjustment. Reflecting uncertainties about how to analyze underlying housing price trends, two approaches are used...
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