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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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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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The Bank Lending Channel of Monetary Transmission; Does it Work in Turkey?

Brooks, Petya Koeva - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2007

on loan supply in Turkey. This suggests that the effect of monetary policy in Turkey can be propagated by the banking …

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Financial Globalization and the Governance of Domestic Financial Intermediaries

Tressel, Thierry; Verdier, Thierry - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2007

We model an economy in which domestic banks and firms face incentive constraints, as in Holmstrom and Tirole (1997). Firms borrow from banks and uninformed investors, and can collude with banks to reduce the intensity of monitoring. We study the general equilibrium effects of capital flows...

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Did the Basel Accord Cause a Credit Slowdown in Latin America?

Cosimano, Thomas F.; Chami, Ralph; Barajas, Adolfo - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2005

Drawing from a unique data set comprising 2,893 banks and 152 countries over the period 1987 to 2000, we test whether the adoption of the Basel Accord by Latin American and Caribbean countries was responsible for the serious slowdowns in credit growth experienced by these countries. We find...

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Retail Bank Interest Rate Pass-Through; Is Chile Atypical?

Rebucci, Alessandro; Espinosa-Vega, Marco A - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2003

This paper investigates empirically the pass-through of money market interest rates to retail banking interest rates in …

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