The paper studies the determinants of international differences in household indebtedness, and inquires whether indebtedness is associated with increased “financial fragility”, as measured by the sensitivity of household arrears and insolvencies to macroeconomic shocks. It also investigates...

This Selected Issues paper reviews the financial sector development in Georgia in recent years, and investigates why it has lagged behind economic development, as well as developments in more advanced transition economies. The paper briefly reviews recent financial sector development in Georgia,...

This Selected Issues paper on Euro Area Policies 2013 Article IV Consultation highlights the monetary transmission mechanism and monetary policies. The European Central Bank has announced the Outright Monetary Transactions framework to address severe distortions in sovereign bond markets and...

This technical note on deposit insurance on the Republic of Belarus explains the status of the deposit insurance system. The current system of deposit insurance is governed by two different pieces of legislation, each in turn elaborated by a separate National Bank of Belarus (NBB) resolution....

Empirical evidence suggests that severe economic downturns, characterized by deleverage, are preceded by phenomena of debt overhang. Hence large recessions may not result from large shocks, but, rather, from typical shocks interacting with the state of the economy. We study a stochastic economy...

The purpose of our work is to explore contagious financial crises. To this end, we use simplified, thus numerically solvable, versions of our general model [Goodhart, Sunirand and Tsomocos (2003)]. The model incorporates heterogeneous agents, banks and endogenous default, thus allowing various...

The work seeks to analyse Mexico's recent exchange-rate crisis in relation to the debate on financial modernisation and external financial fragility. The author reviews some key features of Mexico's 1988-1994 economic recovery before analysing some aspects of the country's evolution in the light...

The work seeks to analyse Mexico's recent exchange-rate crisis in relation to the debate on financial modernisation and external financial fragility. The author reviews some key features of Mexico's 1988-1994 economic recovery before analysing some aspects of the country's evolution in the light...

Статья посвящена исследованию связи между стабильностью развития финансового сектора и его долей в совокупном объеме производства. В статье проведено...

Цель данной работы проанализировать роль экономической культуры как фактора глобального кризиса. Автор полагает, что культуру современного капитализма...