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The U.K. financial sector is globally systemic, open, and complex. It has weathered the COVID-19 pandemic fittingly, thanks to the post-GFC reforms, a proactive macroprudential stance, and an effective multipronged response to maintain financial stability. Brexit uncertainties are being handled...
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This Selected Issues paper analyzes France's fiscal stance using a structural stochastic model. The theoretical model features a forward-looking benevolent government that needs to decide the optimal fiscal stance given the level of public debt, the cyclical position of the economy, and...
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This paper provides an assessment of the insurance sector in the United Kingdom. The United Kingdom has one of the … deepest, most developed insurance markets in the world. Insurance penetration is 50 percent higher than in the European Union … or other advanced economies, and the expenditure per capita in insurance amounts to USD 5,429 as compared with USD 3 …
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Sweden entered the pandemic with substantial buffers and suffered a relatively shallow recession in 2020. The decline … in output was moderated by substantial income and liquidity support as well as structural features of the economy. Sweden …
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This paper identifies policies to increase productivity in the East, reduce regional income disparities, and promote overall income convergence. Achieving this objective will require improving educational attainment and reducing skill mismatches in the East, scaling up public infrastructure to...
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This paper discusses how Financial Sector Assessment Program (FSAP) stress test assesses the resilience of the banking … metrics across firms to facilitate the assessment of the banking system as a whole. The stress test analysis is intended to … help country authorities to identify key sources of systemic risk in the banking sector and inform macroprudential policies …
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a forward-looking, quantitative assessment of capital adequacy of the U.K. banking system as a whole, and individual …
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financial system and represent one of the largest small- and medium-sized banking segments in the EU. The banking sector is a …
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