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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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Official Intervention in the Foreign Exchange Market; Elements of Best Practice

Kriljenko, Jorge Iván Canales; Karacadag, Cem; … - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2003

This paper offers guidance on the operational aspects of official intervention in the foreign exchange market … counterparties in conducting intervention. The analysis highlights the difficulty of detecting exchange rate misalignments and … disorderly markets, and argues in favor of parsimony in official intervention. Determining the timing and amount of intervention …

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Lessons and Policy Implications From the Global Financial Crisis

Claessens, Stijn; Laeven, Luc; Igan, Deniz; … - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2010

The ongoing global financial crisis is rooted in a combination of factors common to previous financial crises and some new factors. The crisis has brought to light a number of deficiencies in financial regulation and architecture, particularly in the treatment of systemically important financial...

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ROMANIA DURING THE POST-CRISIS PERIOD: A LIMITATIVE EVALUATION

Pop, Napoleon - In: Studii Financiare (Financial Studies) 14 (2010) 4, pp. 93-110

It is our duty to insist, by repetition, on some aspects linked with possible exit from the present crisis, observing that the general approach has had the temptation to derail from the well known and very simple rules imposed either by theory or practice in connection with the business cycle...

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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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Currency Crises in Developed and Emerging Market Economies; A Comparative Empirical Treatment

Fontaine, Thomson - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2005

This paper takes a step in empirically testing the implications of a number of theoretical models that attempt to highlight the dynamics behind currency crises. By focusing on countries with broadly disparate economic and political arrangements, the study attempts to determine the extent to...

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Managing Financial Crises; The Experience in East Asia

Lane, Timothy D.; Hamann, A. Javier; Schulze-Gattas, … - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2000

The Asian financial crisis of 1997-98 was one of the most dramatic economic events of recent times, which raised many questions regarding the appropriate policy response to financial crises. This paper reviews the experience of this crisis, focusing on the overall strategy of crisis management...

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Did Output Recover From the Asian Crisis?

Cerra, Valerie; Saxena, Sweta Chaman - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2003

This paper investigates the extent to which output has recovered from the Asian crisis. A regime-switching approach that introduces two state variables is used to decompose recessions in a set of six Asian countries into permanent and transitory components. While growth recovered fairly quickly...

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Comparison between Asian, Russian and Turkish financial crises

Lukkarila, Johanna - EconWPA - 2004

, ie third generation theories, for the crisis episodes in Asia. It also compares the theories and Asian events to …

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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...

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