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Credit Growth and the Effectiveness of Reserve Requirements and Other Macroprudential Instruments in Latin America

International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2012

Over the past decade policy makers in Latin America have adopted a number of macroprudential instruments to manage the procyclicality of bank credit dynamics to the private sector and contain systemic risk. Reserve requirements, in particular, have been actively employed. Despite their...

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Developing Essential Financial Markets in Smaller Economies; Stylized Facts and Policy Options

International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2008

This paper surveys the foreign exchange markets, money and secondary government security markets, and stock exchanges in 107 smaller economy countries. The underdevelopment of these markets impedes risk transfer, monetary policy, corporate financing, and the capacity to absorb capital inflows....

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Macroeconomic Implications of Financial Dollarization; The Case of Uruguay

Gelos, Gaston; Mejía, Alejandro López; Piñón-Farah, … - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2008

Uruguay has experienced a remarkable recovery since the 2002 crisis, supported by sound policies and favorable external conditions. With the framework put in place in 2002, Uruguay abandoned an exchange rate peg in favor of a free float, adoped a monetary regime initially based on money targets,...

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Setting Up Treasuries in the Baltics, Russia, and other Countries of the Former Soviet Union

Diamond, Jack; Potter, Barry H. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2000

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Capital Markets and Financial Intermediation in The Baltics

Sheridan, Niamh; Schipke, Alfred; George, Susan Mary; … - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2004

In just over a decade after independence, the three Baltic countries, Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania, have transformed themselves into fully functioning, small open-market economies that will be joining the European Union. Capital Markets and Financial Intermediation in The Baltics analyzes the...

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Real Estate Market Developments and Financal Sector Soundness

Hilbers, Paul Louis Ceriel; Zacho, Lisbeth; Lei, Qin - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2001

This paper analyses the characteristics and functioning of real estate markets. It focuses on the relationship between developments in these markets and the financial sector to determine under what circumstances real estate booms and busts can develop and how they can affect the health and...

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Introduction to Applied Stress Testing

Cihák, Martin - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2007

Stress testing is a useful and increasingly popular, yet sometimes misunderstood, method of analyzing the resilience of financial systems to adverse events. This paper aims to help demystify stress tests, and illustrate their strengths and weaknesses. Using an Excel-based exercise with...

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Cost and Effectiveness of Banking Sector Restructuring in Transition Economies

Zoli, Edda - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2001

-98. It argues that country-specific banking sector features, the size of bad loans inherited from the centrally planned … costs and overall improvement in banking sector performance for the sample countries as a whole. …

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A Simple Model of An International Lender of Last Resort

Huang, Haizhou; Goodhart, C. A. E. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2000

many open economies, each with a banking system and a central bank operating under a pegged exchange rate regime. The … fragility of the banking system and the limited ability of a domestic central bank to provide international liquidity together … can cause currency and banking crises. An international interbank market can help an economy with the needed international …

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Loan Review, Provisioning, and Macroeconomic Linkages

International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2000

Loan review is a process routinely used by banks to assess the current value of loan portfolios. Provisioning is a technique to translate loan review results into the balance sheet. It allows for ongoing valuation of loans. Both are core elements of credit risk management and important to...

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