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The Crisis; Basic Mechanisms and Appropriate Policies
Blanchard, Olivier J. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2009
The purpose of this lecture is to look beyond the complex events that characterize the global financial and economic crisis, identify the basic mechanisms, and infer the policies needed to resolve the current crisis, as well as the policies needed to reduce the probability of similar events in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004999966
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Introduction to Applied Stress Testing
Cihák, Martin - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2007
credit risk, interest rate and exchange rate risks, liquidity risk and contagion risk, and are guided in the design of stress …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005248151
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Insurance Companies in Emerging Markets
Kong, Janet; Singh, Manmohan - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2005
instruments and provide stability to the domestic securities market. The regulatory regime and the liquidity and depth of local …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005825993
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Toward An Effective Supervision of Partially Dollarized Banking Systems
Pascual, Antonio Garcia; Cayazzo, Jorge; Heysen, Socorro; … - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2006
. The tendency to underprice systemic liquidity risk and currency-induced credit risk creates vulnerabilities that need … liquidity and solvency risks. The paper also shows that most dollarized countries have addressed their liquidity vulnerabilities …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005605319
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Macroprudential Policy; What Instruments and How to Use them? Lessons From Country Experiences
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2011
This paper provides the most comprehensive empirical study of the effectiveness of macroprudential instruments to date. Using data from 49 countries, the paper evaluates the effectiveness of macroprudential instruments in reducing systemic risk over time and across institutions and markets. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009369434
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Bank Risk Within and Across Equilibria
Agur, Itai - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2014
The global financial crisis highlighted that the financial system can be most vulnerable when it seems most stable. This paper models non-linear dynamics in banking. Small shocks can lead from an equilibrium with few bank defaults straight to a full freeze. The mechanism is based on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010800971
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How Risky Are Banks' Risk Weighted Assets? Evidence From the Financial Crisis
Das, Sonali; Sy, Amadou N. R. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2012
We study how investors account for the riskiness of banks' risk-weighted assets (RWA) by examining the determinants of stock returns and market measures of risk. We find that banks with higher RWA had lower stock returns over the US and European crises. This relationship is weaker in Europe...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009654141
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The GCC Banking Sector; Topography and Analysis
Khamis, May Y.; Al-Hassan, Abdullah; Oulidi, Nada - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2010
In this paper, we analyze the evolution of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) banking sectors in the six member countries including ownership, concentration, cross-border linkages, balance sheet exposures and risks, recent trends in credit growth, and financial soundness. We identify risks to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008470388
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Measuring Systemic Liquidity Risk and the Cost of Liquidity Insurance
Severo, Tiago - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2012
I construct a systemic liquidity risk index (SLRI) from data on violations of arbitrage relationships across several … liquidity risk factor. Results show that the level of bank returns is not directly affected by the SLRI, but their volatility … increases when liquidity conditions deteriorate. I do not find a strong association between bank size and exposure to the SLRI …
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Capital Regulation, Liquidity Requirements and Taxation in a Dynamic Model of Banking
Nicoló, Gianni De; Gamba, Andrea; Lucchetta, Marcella - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2012
liquidity risk. We find an inverted U-shaped relationship between capital requirements and bank lending, efficiency, and welfare …, with their benefits turning into costs beyond a certain requirement threshold. By contrast, liquidity requirements reduce … lending, efficiency and welfare significantly. The costs of high capital and liquidity requirements represent a lower bound on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011142059