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Banks may be unable to refinance short-term liabilities in case of solvency concerns. To manage this risk, banks can accumulate a buffer of liquid assets, or strengthen transparency to communicate solvency. While a liquidity buffer provides complete insurance against small shocks, transparency...
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Effective risk management at central banks is best enabled by a sound framework embedded throughout the organization that supports the design and execution of risk management activities. To evaluate the risk management practices at a central bank, the Safeguards Assessments Division of the IMF's...
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This paper explores three possible transmission channels for transition risk shocks to the financial system in Norway. First, we estimate the direct firm-level impact of a substantial increase in domestic carbon prices under severe assumptions. Second, we map the impact of a drastic increase in...
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The traditional approach to the stress testing of financial institutions focuses on capital adequacy and solvency. Liquidity stress tests have been applied in parallel to and independently from solvency stress tests, based on scenarios which may not be consistent with those used in solvency...
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Colombia. We explore risks imposed on the banking system based on scenarios of an increase in the domestic carbon tax by using … sectors, we assess the extent to which such policy shock would transmit from nonfinancial firms to the banking system. We … retail trade, and transportation sectors appear to be the most important in the transmission of the risk to the banking …
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We study the effects of a bank's engagement in trading. Traditional banking is relationship-based: not scalable, long … scale restrictions in banking …
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member countries' banking systems, and discusses examples of its actual implementation in FSAPs to 18 countries which are in …
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That most corporate tax systems favor debt over equity finance is now widely recognized as, potentially, amplifying risks to financial stability. This paper makes a first attempt to explore, empirically, the link between this tax bias and the probability of financial crisis. It finds that...
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The crisis in Europe has underscored the vulnerability of European bank funding models compared to international peers. This paper studies the drivers behind this fragility and examines the future of bank funding, primarily wholesale, in Europe. We argue that cyclical and structural factors have...
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drive banking toward provision of fee-based, utility services …
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