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Bolivia showed a solid macroeconomic performance in recent years, owing to its strong trade and prudent economic policies. IMF staff stressed the need to tighten monetary conditions through increasing the policy interest rate as a means to combat inflation. The Executive Board praised...
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and banks. Finally, we find spillover effects in particular from sovereigns in the euro area periphery to the core …
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Since the 2008 global financial crisis, and after decades of relative neglect, the importance of the financial system and its episodic crises as drivers of macroeconomic outcomes has attracted fresh scrutiny from academics, policy makers, and practitioners. Theoretical advances are following a...
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<i>Global Credit Review</i> is an annual publication that provides an overview of the most important developments in global credit markets and the regulatory landscape. The third volume provides some critical analysis, reviews the introduction of new regulations and also offers new insights to address...
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flow of funds and segment reports (information) of local universal banks, whose loans outstanding to the industrial sector …, (2) their profitability has come from investment activities in the securities markets, and (3) some universal banks have … detailed analysis, diverse business strategies would be expected among the local universal banks in the near future. …
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identify the optimal level of risk-weighted assets that maximizes banks’ returns in the full sample of US banks over the period … periods with high profit opportunities for banks but quickly decreasing below the realized in periods of turmoil. We place …
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Central Bank in its pursuit of price stability. For example, banks have been able to easily find the wherewithal to extend … trends in excess reserves of commercial banks in Jamaica during the period 1998 to 2010 and the challenges encountered by the … major determinants of the excess reserves of commercial banks in Jamaica in the long-run and short-run are the reserve …
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highly geared banks first became fragile and then failed with such dire consequences for the economy that massive policy …
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Could either monetary policy or financial prudential regulation be relied on individually to mitigate asset price cycles or their effects? If both ways are effective, monetary policy and prudential regulation could then be considered “substitutes,” in the sense that the individual use of...
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This paper analyzes interest rate pass-through in Ghana. Time series and bank-specific data are utilized to highlight linkages between policy, wholesale market, and retail market interest rates. Our analysis shows that responses to changes in the policy interest rate are gradual in the wholesale...
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