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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 … performance of eleven near-term systemic risk indicators as ‘early’ warning of distress among top financial institutions in the …
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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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risk transfers could modify the risk profile of entire financial systems, and thus an enriched simulation algorithm able to … account for risk transfers is proposed. Finally, we discuss how some of the limitations of our simulations are a reflection of …
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The recent global financial crisis has forced a re-examination of risk transmission in the financial sector and how it … framework that helps mitigate the risk from systemic linkages with a view towards enhancing the resilience of the financial … sector. This paper presents a forward-looking framework ("Systemic CCA") to measure systemic solvency risk based on market …
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This note overviews macroprudential policy options that have been proposed to address the systemic risks experienced during the recent financial crisis. It contributes to the policy debate by providing a taxonomy of macroprudential policies in terms of the specific negative externalities in the...
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-crisis period were more likely to fail afterward. The likelihood of bank failure also increases with bank risk-taking. In the cross …-section, the smaller domestically-oriented banks were relatively more vulnerable to liquidity risk, while the large cross …-border banks were more susceptible to solvency risk due to excessive leverage. The results support the proposed Basel III …
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alleviated by a suitably designed bankruptcy regime that facilitates debt restructuring. …
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Finanzdienstleistungsaufsicht (BaFin) and the Bundesbank have closely coordinated with the interagency risk committee on banking matters, which also …
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Developing and transition economies are prone to financial crises, including balance of payments and banking crises. These crises affect poverty and the distribution of income through a variety of channels: slowdowns in economic activity, relative price changes, and fiscal retrenchment, among...
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This paper reviews the nature of central bank involvement in 26 episodes of financial disturbance and crises in Latin America from the mid-1990s onwards. It finds that, except in a handful of cases, large amounts of central bank money were used to cope with large and small crises alike. Pouring...
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