This paper proposes a low cost alternative to the large bailout packages that the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has organized to address financial crises. The IMF would act as a lender of last resort. Faced with an unsustainable debt burden, a government would declare default. It would...

The paper models the policy challenges facing globalizing developing countries. Models from the pure theory of international trade, the small open economy model, growth accounting, the Solow- Swan model, the gravity model, models of portfolio diversification and currency crises models are...

This paper reports the performance of the banking sectors of four crisis-hit East Asian economies, under IMF-restructuring programs, over the pre- and post-restructuring periods. Results from the widely used structural analysis model indicate that the four banking sectors have become moderately...

This paper discusses the relationship between premia for macroeconomic risk in banking, aggregate behavior, and banking crises. We consider a competitive banking system embedded in an overlapping generation model subject to repeated macroeconomic shocks. We highlight how risk premia decline when...

This paper studies the question to what extent premia for macroeconomic risks in banking are sufficient to avoid banking crises. We investigate a competitive banking system embedded in an overlapping generation model subject to repeated macroeconomic shocks. We show that even if banks fully...

This paper provides a macroeconomic perspective for government interventions in banking crises. We illustrate how vulnerabilities of the banking sector may build up over time and thus destabilize a banking system. A crisis occurs when a large number of banks fail to meet capital requirements or...

Este trabajo presenta un conjunto de regularidades empíricas sobre los mecanismos a través de los que los problemas bancarios y el riesgo soberano se transmiten y retroalimentan, usando una amplia muestra de economías emergentes a lo largo de tres décadas. Para ello, se definen crisis...

Artículo de revista ; The events of 2023 have served as a reminder of how quickly banking crises can occur. This article analyses the roots of the problems which, ultimately, against a backdrop of uncertainty and rapid contagion effects, affected banks whose business models, governance and risk...

This study investigates the macroeconomic implications of financial intermediation of international capital inflows in a small open economy (SOE). The interplay between financial intermediation and macroeconomic fluctuations is studied under alternative representations of the relationship...

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