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vulnerabilities. Further, the paper presents operational issues faced by debt managers, including the need to develop a risk …
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drop in liquidity and a spike in risk aversion contributed to high spreads in Central and Eastern and South … periphery. The significant drop in the CDS spreads between July 2012 and December 2012 was mainly driven by a decline in risk …
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credit default swap prices. An alternative credit risk measure is proposed here: the maximum recovery rate compatible with …
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Nonbanks such as central counterparties (CCPs) are a useful lens to see how regulators view the role of the lender-of-last-resort (LOLR). This paper explores the avenues available when a nonbank failure is likely, specifically by considering the options of keeping CCPs afloat. It is argued that...
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Changes to the regulatory system introduced after the financial crisis include not only mandatory clearing of OTC derivatives at central counterparties and margining of uncleared derivatives, but also prudential measures, including notably a 'Liquidity Coverage Ratio' which obliges firms to set...
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The assessment of external positions and exchange rates is a key mandate of the IMF. This paperpresents the updated External Balance Assessment (EBA) framework-a key input in the conduct ofmultilaterally-consistent external sector assessments of 49 advanced and emerging marketeconomies-following...
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In this paper, we discuss the modern history of monetarism and its alternatives, as well as the changing empirical relationship of various measures of money and inflation. After demonstrating that previous naïve correlations between money and inflation as established in the 20th century...
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This paper explores the concept of global liquidity, its measurement and macro-financial importance. We construct two sets of indicators for global liquidity: a quantity series distinguishing between core and noncore liabilities of financial intermediatires and a corresponding price series....
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, and its legacy on sovereign balance sheets, reaffirms the need for strengthening financial risk management. This paper … perspective, the SALM approach could help detect direct and derived sovereign risk exposures. It allows analyzing the financial … risk. The paper also outlines institutional requirements in implementing an SALM framework and seeks to lay the ground for …
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Deleveraging has two components -- shrinking of balance sheets due to increased haircuts/shedding of assets, and the reduction in the interconnectedness of the financial system. We focus on the second aspect and show that post-Lehman there has been a significant decline in the interconnectedness...
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