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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 implications of this for wage policy in the Euro zone. …
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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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Successful implementation of macroprudential policy is contingent on the ability to identify and estimate systemic risk in real time. In this paper, systemic risk is defined as the conditional probability of a systemic banking crisis and this conditional probability is modeled in a fixed effect...
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Jamaica has performed well under the Stand-By Arrangement program. Executive Directors commended that overall macroeconomic performance under the program has been encouraging. Directors welcomed the program aimed at fiscal responsibility legislation and central treasury management, public debt...
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When the global financial crisis hit the shores of Europe, after crossing the Atlantic, the Eurozone was considered a … euro's fault. As a result, some argued that Greece and eventually other bailed-out member states should abandon the euro … up on supporting them financially, forcing them to abandon the euro anyway. Yet, no such thing has happened. The euro and …
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balances, gradual economic recovery) explains the region’s resilience to financial market spillovers during the euro area … crisis. Our generalised variance decomposition analyisis does not suggest strong direct spillovers from the euro area …
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This paper is interested in linking formally external disequilibriums to the sovereign debt crisis the EMU is experiencing since 2009. Relying on the CHEER approach that connects the goods market to the capital market, we show that when a country belonging to a monetary union faces external...
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This paper is interested in linking formally external disequilibrium to the sovereign debt crisis which the EMU is experiencing since 2009. Relying on the CHEER approach that connects the goods market to the capital market, we show that when a country belonging to a monetary union faces external...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011077125