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Official Financial Flows, Capital Mobility, and Global Imbalances

Bayoumi, Tamim; Gagnon, Joseph E.; Saborowski, Christian - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2014

intervention) on current accounts. We find that net official flows have a large but plausible effect on current account balances …

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The Yen-Dollar Rate; Have Interventions Mattered?

Ramaswamy, Ramana; Samiei, Hossein - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2000

Using daily data for 1995–99, this paper estimates a simple forward looking model of the exchange rate to show that foreign exchange interventions have, on the whole, had small but persistent effects on the yen-dollar rate. Contrary to conventional wisdom, sterilized interventions have...

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Balance-Sheet Shocks and Recapitalizations

Sandri, Damiano; Valencia, Fabian - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2012

We develop a dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model with financial frictions on both financial intermediaries and goods-producing firms. In this context, due to high leverage of financial intermediaries, balance sheet disruptions in the financial sector are particularly detrimental for...

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Central Bank Foreign Exchange Market Intervention and Option Contract Specification; The Case of Colombia

Mandeng, Ousmène - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2003

intervention. Option contract specifications determine the impact of options on the underlying asset or currency, and hence their …-based intervention. The paper reviews the experience of the systematic option-based foreign exchange market intervention of the Central …

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From Fixed to Float; Operational Aspects of Moving towards Exchange Rate Flexibility

Fernandez, Gilda; Karacadag, Cem; Duttagupta, Rupa - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2004

market, formulating intervention policies consistent with the new regime, establishing an alternative nominal anchor in the …

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Official Intervention in the Foreign Exchange Market; Elements of Best Practice

Kriljenko, Jorge Iván Canales; Karacadag, Cem; … - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2003

This paper offers guidance on the operational aspects of official intervention in the foreign exchange market … counterparties in conducting intervention. The analysis highlights the difficulty of detecting exchange rate misalignments and … disorderly markets, and argues in favor of parsimony in official intervention. Determining the timing and amount of intervention …

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Banking in Sub-Saharan Africa; What Went Wrong?

Gall, Françoise Le; Daumont, Roland; Leroux, François - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2004

endemic crises associated with heavy government intervention in the banking system. In this regard, the paper analyzes the …

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Lessons and Policy Implications From the Global Financial Crisis

Claessens, Stijn; Laeven, Luc; Igan, Deniz; … - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2010

The ongoing global financial crisis is rooted in a combination of factors common to previous financial crises and some new factors. The crisis has brought to light a number of deficiencies in financial regulation and architecture, particularly in the treatment of systemically important financial...

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Capital Flows and their Macroeconomic Effects in India

Kohli, Renu - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2001

money supply. During a capital surge, these effects have been countered through intervention and sterilization. The paper …

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Modeling Sterilized Interventions and Balance Sheet Effects of Monetary Policy in a New-Keynesian Framework

Benes, Jaromir; Berg, Andrew; Portillo, Rafael A; … - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2013

We study a wide range of hybrid inflation-targeting (IT) and managed exchange rate regimes, analyzing their implications for inflation, output and the exchange rate in the presence of various domestic and external shocks. To this end, we develop an open economy new-Keynesian model featuring...

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