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United Arab Emirates; Selected Issues and Statistical Appendix

International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2003

This Selected Issues paper and Statistical Appendix presents five essays examining issues in the United Arab Emirates related to the financial sector, long-term fiscal trends, fiscal sustainability, the competitiveness of the non-oil economy, and the labor market, as well as estimates of the...

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Italy; Financial Sector Assessment Program: Detailed Assessment of Observance of the IMF Code of Good Practices on Transparency in Monetary and Financial Policies: Banking Supervis...

International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2006

Monetary and Financial Policies (MFPT Code)â€”Banking Supervision for Italy. Banca dâ€™Italia (BI) notes the assessmentâ …€™s recognition of the very high degree of compliance of the Italian banking supervisory system with MFPT Code. The assessment … highlights positive features as the extensive information on banking supervision made publicly available through the annual …

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Financial System Soundness in the Caribbean; An Initial Assessment

Cherebin, Desiree; Worrell, DeLisle; Polius, Tracy - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2001

A survey of the financial systems of Caribbean countries reveals systems dominated by banks, with services widely available. Jamaica is the only country to have experienced a financial crisis. The paper describes recent improvements in the regulatory framework, and examines factors, which affect...

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Contagion Risk in the International Banking System and Implications for London As a Global Financial Center

Chan-Lau, Jorge A.; Mitra, Srobona; Ong, Li L. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2007

banking system. We test for the likelihood that an extreme shock affecting a major, systemic U.K. bank would also affect …

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Pakistan; Financial System Stability Assessment, including Reports on the Observance of Standards and Codes on the following topics: Monetary and Financial Policy Transparency, Ban...

International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2004

Standards and Codes on Monetary and Financial Policy Transparency, Banking Supervision, and Securities Regulation. Major reforms …

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Growth-Financial Intermediation Nexus in China

Aziz, Jahangir; Duenwald, Christoph - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2002

This paper studies the relationship between economic growth and financial development in China during the post-1978 reform period. Recent studies, based on cross-country data, have found a positive association between these two variables. We find that while a positive correlation between growth...

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A New Database of Financial Reforms

Detragiache, Enrica; Abiad, Abdul; Tressel, Thierry - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2008

This paper introduces a new database of financial reforms, covering 91 economies over 1973–2005. It describes the content of the database, the information sources utilized, and the coding rules used to create an index of financial reform. It also compares the database with other measures of...

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Audit Committees in Central Banks

Sullivan, Kenneth; Gilson, Marie-Thérèse Camilleri; … - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2007

This paper reviews the tasks and design of audit committees, increasingly recommended as a way to strengthen financial accountability and good central bank governance. It outlines the motivations for the establishment of audit committees in commercial corporations and public sector entities, and...

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Capital Markets and Financial Intermediation in The Baltics

Sheridan, Niamh; Schipke, Alfred; George, Susan Mary; … - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2004

In just over a decade after independence, the three Baltic countries, Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania, have transformed themselves into fully functioning, small open-market economies that will be joining the European Union. Capital Markets and Financial Intermediation in The Baltics analyzes 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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