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The Option-Ipod. the Probability of Default Implied by Option Prices Basedon Entropy
Capuano, Christian - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2008
We present a framework to derive the probability of default implied by the price of equity options. The framework does not require any strong statistical assumption, and provide results that are informative on the expected developments of balance sheet variables, such as assets, equity and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005599478
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Stress Testing At the IMF
Swinburne, Mark; Stolz, Stéphanie Marie; Moretti, Marina - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2008
For almost a decade, the IMF has been using stress tests to identify vulnerabilities across institutions that could undermine the stability of a country's financial system. This working paper focuses on the IMF's experience with stress testing in the Financial Sector Assessment Program (FSAP)....
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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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The Use of Mortgage Covered Bonds
Avesani, Renzo G.; Ribakova, Elina; Pascual, Antonio Garcia - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2007
The rapid mortgage credit growth experienced in recent years in mature and emerging countries has raised some stability … concerns. Many European credit institutions in mature markets have reacted by increasing securitization, particularly via … movements in covered bond prices can be used to analyze the credit developments of the underlying issuer and the quality of its …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005826294
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Stress Testing Financial Systems; What to Do When the Governor Calls
Hilbers, Paul Louis Ceriel; Jones, Matthew T.; Slack, … - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2004
Stress testing is becoming a widely used tool to assess potential vulnerabilities in a financial system. This paper is intended to answer some of the basic questions that may arise as part of the process of stress testing. The paper begins with a discussion of stress testing in a financial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005826600
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Transmission of Liquidity Shocks; Evidence From the 2007 Subprime Crisis
Hesse, Heiko; Frank, Nathaniel; González-Hermosillo, Brenda - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2008
We examine the linkages between market and funding liquidity pressures, as well as their interaction with solvency issues surrounding key financial institutions during the 2007 subprime crisis. A multivariate GARCH model is estimated in order to test for the transmission of liquidity shocks...
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A Framework for Financial Market Development
Chami, Ralph; Sharma, Sunil; Fullenkamp, Connel - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2009
The paper proposes a framework for examining the process of financial market development. The framework, consistent with the functional view of financial system design, is anchored in studying the incentives facing the key players in financial markets-borrowers, lenders, liquidity providers, and...
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The Crisis; Basic Mechanisms and Appropriate Policies
Blanchard, Olivier J. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2009
The purpose of this lecture is to look beyond the complex events that characterize the global financial and economic crisis, identify the basic mechanisms, and infer the policies needed to resolve the current crisis, as well as the policies needed to reduce the probability of similar events in...
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Macroprudential Regulation Under Repo Funding
Valderrama, Laura - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2010
The use of collateral has become one of the most widespread risk mitigation techniques. While it brings stabilizing effects to the individual lender we argue that it may exacerbate systemic risk through margin call activation. We show how a liquidity shock to the cash lender may propagate as a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008671292
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Political Risk Aversion
Valderrama, Laura - 2009
This paper studies the effect of individual uncertainty on collective decision-making to implement innovation. We show how individual uncertainty creates a bias for the status quo even under irreversible voting decisions, in contrast with Fernandez and Rodrik (1991). Blocking innovation is...
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