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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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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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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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-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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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 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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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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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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This paper investigates empirically the pass-through of money market interest rates to retail banking interest rates in …
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This paper takes stock of the current state of development of the financial systems in five Central European transition economies (the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, the Slovak Republic, and Slovenia) that are also leading EU accession candidates. It presents both a progress report and an...
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