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Currency Crisis and Contagion; Evidence From Exchange Rates and Sectoral Stock Indices of the Philippines and Thailand
Nagayasu, Jun - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2000
This paper analyzes empirically the recent Asian financial crisis using high frequency data of exchange rates and stock indices of the Philippines and Thailand. Utilizing standard time-series techniques, this study confirms that there is evidence that developments in some sectoral...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005263754
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Central Bank Involvement in Banking Crises in Latin America
Jácome, Luis Ignacio - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2008
This paper reviews the nature of central bank involvement in 26 episodes of financial disturbance and crises in Latin America from the mid-1990s onwards. It finds that, except in a handful of cases, large amounts of central bank money were used to cope with large and small crises alike. Pouring...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005264086
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The End; A New Indicator of Financial and Nonfinancial Corporate Sector Vulnerability
Chan-Lau, Jorge A.; Gravelle, Toni - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2005
This paper describes a corporate sector vulnerability indicator, the expected number of defaults (END), based on the joint occurrence of defaults among a number of firms and/or institutions. The END indicator is general enough to assess systemic risk in the corporate and financial sectors, as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005264155
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External Linkages and Contagion Risk in Irish Banks
Mitra, Srobona; Duggar, Elena - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2007
-Euro, and the post-September 11th periods; and significant cross-border contagion risk from the United Kingdom, the United …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005264207
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Short-Term Wholesale Funding and Systemic Risk; A Global Covar Approach
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2012
In this paper we identify some of the main factors behind systemic risk in a set of international large-scale complex banks using the novel CoVaR approach. We find that short-term wholesale funding is a key determinant in triggering systemic risk episodes. In contrast, we find no evidence that a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009654153
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Systemic Risks in Global Banking; What Available Data Can Tell Us and What More Data Are Needed?
Cerutti, Eugenio; McGuire, Patrick M.; Claessens, Stijn - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2011
The recent financial crisis has shown how interconnected the financial world has become. Shocks in one location or asset class can have a sizable impact on the stability of institutions and markets around the world. But systemic risk analysis is severely hampered by the lack of consistent data...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009327867
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Macroprudential Policy; What Instruments and How to Use them? Lessons From Country Experiences
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2011
This paper provides the most comprehensive empirical study of the effectiveness of macroprudential instruments to date. Using data from 49 countries, the paper evaluates the effectiveness of macroprudential instruments in reducing systemic risk over time and across institutions and markets. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009369434
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Risk Sharing and Financial Contagion in Asia; An Asset Price Perspective
Rungcharoenkitkul, Phurichai - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2011
This paper assesses financial integration in Asia in terms of risk-sharing benefit versus financial-contagion cost. We … discount factors. Risk sharing is low in Asia, and varies across time and countries, whereas contagion risks are more … contagion, but the terms of tradeoffs vary across countries, depending on relative economic fluctuations and inflation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009369441
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The Bright and the Dark Side of Cross-Border Banking Linkages
Muñoz, Sònia; Scuzzarella, Ryan; Cihák, Martin - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2011
When a country's banking system becomes more linked to the global banking network, does that system get more or less prone to a banking crisis? Using model simulations and econometric estimates based on a world-wide dataset, we find an M-shaped relationship between financial stability of a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009203546
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Global Market Conditions and Systemic Risk
González-Hermosillo, Brenda; Hesse, Heiko - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2009
This paper examines several key global market conditions, such as a proxy for market uncertainty and measures of interbank funding stress, to assess financial volatility and the likelihood of crisis. Using Markov regime-switching techniques, it shows that the Lehman Brothers failure was a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008460596