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intervention) on current accounts. We find that net official flows have a large but plausible effect on current account balances …
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KEY ISSUES Context: Attempts to boost activity with policy stimulus, in lieu of much-needed structural reform, have failed to raise growth and contributed to large external imbalances. Adverse developments in the region further cloud the outlook. High financing needs and low buffers leave...
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This Technical Note discusses recommendations made during the Financial Sector Assessment Program (FSAP) for South Africa in the areas of contingency planning, crisis management, and bank resolution. The proposed scope of the new resolution regime and of the South African Reserve Bank’s...
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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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Using daily data for 1995–99, this paper estimates a simple forward looking model of the exchange rate to show that foreign exchange interventions have, on the whole, had small but persistent effects on the yen-dollar rate. Contrary to conventional wisdom, sterilized interventions have...
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We develop a dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model with financial frictions on both financial intermediaries and goods-producing firms. In this context, due to high leverage of financial intermediaries, balance sheet disruptions in the financial sector are particularly detrimental for...
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The financial crisis that began in 2007 has brought to the fore the issues of excesses in lending, leverage, and risk-taking as some of the fundamental causes of this crisis. At the same time, in dealing with the financial crisis there have been large scale interventions by governments, often...
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intervention. Option contract specifications determine the impact of options on the underlying asset or currency, and hence their …-based intervention. The paper reviews the experience of the systematic option-based foreign exchange market intervention of the Central …
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market, formulating intervention policies consistent with the new regime, establishing an alternative nominal anchor in the …
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This paper offers guidance on the operational aspects of official intervention in the foreign exchange market … counterparties in conducting intervention. The analysis highlights the difficulty of detecting exchange rate misalignments and … disorderly markets, and argues in favor of parsimony in official intervention. Determining the timing and amount of intervention …
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