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The new international financial architecture can help African countries benefit from globalization, while minimizing …
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All financial institutions specialize, in dimensions that may include categories of assets and liabilities, types of services offered, customer demographics, and geographic coverage. The International Monetary Fund is the only international financial institution that is universal in its...
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. The relative importance of the different risk factors changes substantially depending on the crisis episode. Contagion …
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of more crisis prone regimes suggests no simple dividing line between safe floats and risky intermediate regimes. …
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nature of the crisis? Contrary to the commonly held view that foreign banks play a stabilizing role during domestic banking …
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The aim of this paper is to analyze the dynamic effect of social and political instability on output. Using a panel of up to 183 countries from 1980 to 2010, the results of the paper suggest that social conflicts have a significant and negative impact on output in the short-term with the...
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Credibility is the bedrock of any crisis stress test. The use of stress tests to manage systemic risk was introduced by … constructing an effective crisis stress test. It combines financial markets impact studies of previous exercises with relevant case …. Pertinent concepts, issues and nuances particular to crisis stress testing are also discussed. The findings may be useful for …
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of twin (sovereign and banking) crisis that stresses how this interdependence creates conditions conducive to a self …-fulfilling crisis. …
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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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The paper analyses the cost and effectiveness of bank restructuring policies in 11 transition countries during 1991-98. It argues that country-specific banking sector features, the size of bad loans inherited from the centrally planned system, and weaknesses in the restructuring policies...
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