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Breuer, Peter - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2000

presented. The interaction between leverage and risk is discussed, and a modified capital adequacy ratio is calculated, which …

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Euro Area Policies; 2009 Article IV Consultation: Staff Report; Public Information Notice on the Executive Board Discussion; and Statement by the Executive Director for Member Coun...

International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2009

This 2009 Article IV Consultation focuses on euro area policies. The euro area remains in recession, with signs of improvement yet to evolve into a recovery. The large drop in financial wealth, an associated increase in private savings, tight financing conditions, and the adjustment of global...

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Stress Testing Financial Systems; What to Do When the Governor Calls

Hilbers, Paul Louis Ceriel; Jones, Matthew T.; Slack, … - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2004

Stress testing is becoming a widely used tool to assess potential vulnerabilities in a financial system. This paper is intended to answer some of the basic questions that may arise as part of the process of stress testing. The paper begins with a discussion of stress testing in a financial...

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Quality of Financial Policies and Financial System Stress

Das, Udaibir S.; Yossifov, Plamen; Podpiera, Richard; … - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2005

In this paper, we develop multi-country indices of financial system stress and quality of financial policies and use them in regression analysis of the determinants of financial stress. We find that countries with higher quality of financial policies are better able to contain the effects of...

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Financial Linkages Between the U.S. and Latin Amercia; Evidence From Daily Data

Ganguly, Srideep; Benelli, Roberto - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2007

external bond markets in Latin America remained on a trend of weakening linkages with U.S. corporate bonds, while they … originating in the U.S. stock, bond, and currency markets. After documenting that cross-country linkages were different in … increased their sensitivity to movements in other emerging market bond markets. …

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Quantitative Assessment of the Financial Sector; An Integrated Approach

Worrell, DeLisle - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2004

This paper suggests a strategy designed to make best use of the available quantitative techniques of financial sector assessment. It incorporates early warning systems, financial sector forecasts, stress tests for systemically important financial institutions, interbank contagion analysis, and...

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Asian Equity Markets; Growth, Opportunities, and Challenges

Kramer, Charles Frederick; Purfield, Catriona; Oura, Hiroko - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2006

inflows, growing regional financial integration, capital account liberalization, and structural improvements to markets. The …

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India's Financial Globalisation

Patnaik, Ila; Shah, Ajay - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2011

then came about, with a co-evolution between the system of capital controls, macroeconomic policy, and the …

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Financial Sector Evolution in the Central European Economies; Challenges in Supporting Macroeconomic Stability and Sustainable Growth

Wagner, Nancy L.; Iakova, Dora M. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2001

This paper takes stock of the current state of development of the financial systems in five Central European transition economies (the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, the Slovak Republic, and Slovenia) that are also leading EU accession candidates. It presents both a progress report and an...

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Germany; Technical Note on Stress Testing

International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2011

This note summarizes the stress tests undertaken for the German banking system as part of the Financial Sector Assessment Program (FSAP) update. Solvency tests for the German banking system assessed medium-term vulnerabilities under two adverse macroeconomic scenarios. The tests considered a...

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