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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005248144
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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. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005248153
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005248186
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005248195
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005248279
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Financial Sector Evolution in the Central European Economies; Challenges in Supporting Macroeconomic Stability and Sustainable Growth
Wagner, Nancy L.; Iakova, Dora M. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2001
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005248292
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Dynamic Depositor Discipline in U.S. Banks
McDill, Kathleen; Maechler, Andrea M. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2003
This paper investigates the presence of depositor discipline in the U.S. banking sector. We test whether depositors …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005248320
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Bank Consolidation, Internationalization and Conglomeration; Trends and Implications for Financial Risk
Nicoló, Gianni De; Zephirin, M. G.; Bartholomew, Philip F. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2003
conglomeration, and explores the extent to which financial firm risk and systemic risk potential in banking are related to … concentrated banking systems. We outline research directions aimed at explaining why bank consolidation and conglomeration do not … necessarily yield either safer financial firms or more resilient banking systems. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005253000
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Foreign Bank Supervision and Challenges to Emerging Market Supervisors
Song, Inwon - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2004
The increased presence of foreign banks in a country's domestic banking system necessitates the development of … challenges which foreign banks bring to emerging market banking supervisors are also discussed. The paper also provides surveys …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005253006
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Emergency Liquidity Support Facilities
He, Dong - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2000
This paper discusses operational aspects of official emergency liquidity support to individual institutions under stress. It argues that properly designed lending procedures, clearly laid-out authority and accountability, as well as disclosures rules, will promote financial stability, reduce...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005263737