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stochastic policy mix lead to suboptimal allocations if banks do not internalize insolvency costs. The policy of forbearance may … make banks internalizing such costs and improves the efficiency of intermediation. …
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Malaysia has sustained over four decades of rapid, inclusive growth, reducing its dependence on agriculture and commodity exports to become a more diversified, modern and open economy. GDP per capita is now higher than in a number of OECD economies, while poverty and income inequality have...
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Financial intermediaries may increase economic efficiency through intertemporal risk smoothing. However without an adequate regulation, intermediation may fail to do this. This paper studies the effects of a production shock in a closed economy and compares abilities of market-based and...
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Despite progress in the past decade, financial markets in Colombia remain relatively small and shallow. In particular the banking system suffers high intermediation costs, which limit constrains access to finance by households and firms. This paper explores some of the causes behind these...
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risks should be based on a framework that accounts for the various linkages between the banks and the other relevant … financial market actors, notably investment funds. Given that the bulk of the banks in Luxembourg are affiliates of foreign bank … groups, the authorities should seek clear procedures that govern the (cross-border) resolution of large banks in bad times …
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for systemically important banks, improving banks’ resolvability and fine-tuning the use of countercyclical measures. Data …
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The NZ economy has performed well over the past few years, having achieved relatively strong GDP and employment growth. However, some constraints to sustaining this momentum beyond the short term are emerging in the fields of skills, housing and urban infrastructure. Skills shortages have risen...
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-owned banks. The levels of non-performing loans and capital adequacy ratios compare poorly in international perspective and may … for the two main stateowned banks in mid-2012. To foster the credibility of the new tests, the main results and underlying … by ring-fencing impaired assets, which would create conditions for an orderly resolution of non-viable banks and a rapid …
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Australian and Canadian pension funds have been pioneers in infrastructure investing since the early 1990s. They also have the highest asset allocation to infrastructure around the globe today. This paper compares and contrasts the experience of institutional investors in the two countries...
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This paper investigates policyholder protection schemes in OECD member countries and selected non-OECD countries. It is selective in its scope: it examines the rationale for a policyholder protection scheme; the relationship between certain design features and moral hazard; the role of a...
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