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As a monetary, selective credit, and government debt-management instrument, a liquid asset ratio is generally inefficient and may introduce serious distortions. However, it may play a limited role as a prudential instrument, particularly in less sophisticated banking systems or in the context of...
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This study investigates the relationship between production efficiency in financial intermediation and financial system size. The study predicts and tests for the existence of ""systemic scale economies"" (SSEs), whereby value-maximizing intermediaries operating in large systems are expected to...
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Do financial sector reforms necessarily result in expansion of credit to the private sector? How does bank ownership … Indian experience with liberalization of the financial sector to inform this debate. Using bank-level data from 1991-2007, we …
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This paper proposes a framework to check for consistency between the IMF''s standard country surveillance tool, namely medium-term projections of the macroeconomic framework (including the real, fiscal, external, and monetary sectors), and the financial sector. Consistency here entails that the...
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The Thai financial system faced a crisis in 1983. Weak managerial practices and an inadequate legal and regulatory framework were associated with a gradual deterioration in many financial institutions’ balance sheets; these weaknesses were brought to the fore by a sharp economic downturn in...
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. Liquidity stress tests have been applied in parallel to and independently from solvency stress tests, based on scenarios which … testing of solvency and liquidity: our approach exploits the mechanisms underlying the solvency-liquidity nexus to derive … relations between solvency shocks and liquidity shocks. These relations are then used to model liquidity and solvency risk in a …
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The paper presents a framework to integrate liquidity and solvency stress tests. An empirical study based on European … bond trading data finds that asset sales haircuts depend on the total amount of assets sold and general liquidity … conditions in the market. To account for variations in market liquidity, the study uses Markov regime-switching models and links …
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liquidity risk factor. Results show that the level of bank returns is not directly affected by the SLRI, but their volatility … increases when liquidity conditions deteriorate. I do not find a strong association between bank size and exposure to the SLRI …I construct a systemic liquidity risk index (SLRI) from data on violations of arbitrage relationships across several …
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