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Managing Financial Crises; Recent Experience and Lessons for Latin America
Kincaid, G. Russell; Collyns, Charles - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2003
This paper seeks to draw lessons from the IMF’s experience in handling financial crises around the globe over the past ten years that are relevant to the challenges faced by countries in Latin America, especially in the wake of the recent crisis in Argentina. Experience suggests that...
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The Financial Crisis in Japan – Are There Similarities to the Current Situation?
Mayr, Johannes - In: CESifo Forum 9 (2008) 4, pp. 64-68
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Adopting the Euro in Central Europe; Challenges of the Next Step in European Integration
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2005
Upon entry into the European Union, countries become members of the Economic and Monetary Union (EMU), with a derogation from adopting the euro as their currency (that is, each country joining the EU commits to replace its national currency with the euro, but can choose when to request...
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On Keeping Your Powder Dry: Fiscal Foundations of Financial and Price Stability
Obstfeld, Maurice - In: Monetary and Economic Studies 31 (2013) November, pp. 25-38
Banking systems have rapidly grown to a point where, for many countries, bank assets amount to multiples of GDP. As a consequence, governments' capacities to provide stability-enhancing fiscal guarantees against systemic crises can no longer be taken for granted. As regulation of dynamic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010819369
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On Keeping Your Powder Dry: Fiscal Foundations of Financial and Price Stability
Obstfeld, Maurice - Institute for Monetary and Economic Studies, Bank of Japan - 2013
Banking systems have rapidly grown to a point where for many countries bank assets amount to multiples of GDP. As a consequence, governmentfs capacity to provide stability-enhancing fiscal guarantees against systemic crises can no longer be taken for granted. As regulation of dynamic financial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010819396
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On Keeping Your Powder Dry: Fiscal Foundations of Financial and Price Stability
Obstfeld, Maurice - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013
Banking systems have rapidly grown to a point where for many countries bank assets amount to multiples of GDP. As a consequence, government’s capacity to provide stability-enhancing fiscal guarantees against systemic crises can no longer be taken for granted. As regulation of dynamic financial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011084186
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Iceland: The Financial and Economic Crisis
Carey, David - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2009
The global financial and economic crisis has struck Iceland with extreme force. Iceland’s three main banks, accounting … in Iceland than in most other OECD countries owing to the seriousness of the banking crisis and the weakness of private … the 2009 Economic Survey of Iceland.<P>Islande : La crise économique et financière<BR>La crise économique et financière …
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Trade and Financial Contagion in Currency Crises
Salgado, Ranil; Ricci, Luca Antonio; Caramazza, Francesco - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2000
This paper investigates empirically the relevance of external, domestic, and financial weaknesses as well as trade and financial linkages in inducing financial crises for a sample of 61 emerging market and industrial countries. A panel probit estimation finds these economic indicators to be...
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Original Sin, Balance Sheet Crises, and the Roles of International Lending
Zettelmeyer, Jeromin; Jeanne, Olivier - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2002
We present a stylized framework which encompasses a variety of "balance sheet approaches" to currency crises that have been suggested in the literature, and analyze their policy implications. The common theme is that currency and maturity mismatches in private sector balance sheets constrain the...
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When You've Seen One Financial Crisis
Norden, Simon van - Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des … - 2009
Financial market crises may differ, but severe banking crises typically share many common features. The most recent crisis shares many features with the US Savings and Loan crisis of the 1980s and early 90s as well as some features of the LTCM crisis of 1998. More generally, banking crises are...
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