Browse

8 Addressing the Prudential and Antitrust Aspects of Financial Sector Mergers and Acquisitions »
Source: Building Strong Banks Through Surveillance and Resolution
Series: Books
Author(s): Charles Enoch , Dewitt Marston , and Michael Taylor
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 18 September 2002
ISBN: 9781589060432
Keywords: banking, loans, restructuring, debt, asset management
Mergers and acquisitions involving regulated financial institutions have a prudential dimension that differentiates them from such transactions in other sectors of t...

12 An Operational Framework for Addressing the Public Costs of Systemic Bank Restructuring »
Source: Building Strong Banks Through Surveillance and Resolution
Series: Books
Author(s): Charles Enoch , Dewitt Marston , and Michael Taylor
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 18 September 2002
ISBN: 9781589060432
Keywords: banking, loans, restructuring, debt, asset management
Systemic bank restructuring entails high costs, which are borne largely by governments and funded through the issuance of vast quantities of public debt. Cross-count...

Building Strong Banks Through Surveillance and Resolution »
Series: Books
Author(s): Charles Enoch , Dewitt Marston , and Michael Taylor
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 18 September 2002
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5089/9781589060432.071
ISBN: 9781589060432
Keywords: banking, loans, restructuring, debt, asset management
Since the mid-1990s, economic observers have kept a watchful eye on the financial sector because of its potential to spark economic crises. Banks in particular have come under close scrutiny. Building Strong Banks...

Front Matter »
Source: Building Strong Banks Through Surveillance and Resolution
Series: Books
Author(s): Charles Enoch , Dewitt Marston , and Michael Taylor
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 18 September 2002
ISBN: 9781589060432
Keywords: banking, loans, restructuring, debt, asset management
Since the mid-1990s, economic observers have kept a watchful eye on the financial sector because of its potential to spark economic crises. Banks in particular have come under close scrutiny. Building Strong Banks...

Cross-Country Empirical Studies of Systemic Bank Distress »
Source: Cross-Country Empirical Studies of Systemic Bank Distress : A Survey
Volume/Issue: 2005/96
Series: IMF Working Papers
Author(s): Asli Demirgüç-Kunt , and Enrica Detragiache
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 01 May 2005
ISBN: 9781451861150
Keywords: financial fragility, banking, banking crisis, deposit insurance, bank fragility, Financial Markets and the Macroeconomy,
A rapidly growing empirical literature is studying the causes and consequences of bank fragility in present-day economies. The paper reviews the two basic methodologies adopted in cross-country empirical studies-th...

Currency Crises and Foreign Reserves »
Source: Currency Crises and Foreign Reserves : A Simple Model
Volume/Issue: 2001/18
Series: IMF Working Papers
Author(s): Piti Disyatat
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 01 February 2001
ISBN: 9781451843644
Keywords: Currency Crisis, Speculative Attacks, Borrowing Reserves, capital controls, external borrowing, central bank, domestic currency, Monetary Policy, Central Banking, and the Supply of Money and Credit: General
This paper addresses the important question of how far a government will run down its stock of foreign reserves in a defense of a fixed exchange rate. An optimizing model of currency crisis is presented in which th...

Default, Credit Growth, and Asset Prices »
Source: Default, Credit Growth, and Asset Prices
Volume/Issue: 2006/223
Series: IMF Working Papers
Author(s): C. Goodhart , Miguel Segoviano Basurto , and Boris Hofmann
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 01 September 2006
ISBN: 9781451864830
Keywords: Probability of default, macroeconomic shocks, financial surveillance, banking, bank lending, probability, Econometric Modeling: General, Prices, Business Fluctuations, and Cycles: Forecasting and Simulation
This paper uses a Merton-type estimate of the probability of default (PoD) for the main banks in a sample of Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development and middle-income countries as a proxy for the frag...

Deposit Insurance and Crisis Management »
Source: Deposit Insurance and Crisis Management
Volume/Issue: 2000/57
Series: IMF Working Papers
Author(s): G. Garcia
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 01 March 2000
ISBN: 9781451847765
Keywords: comprehensive guarantee, banking, banking system, subordinated debt, systemic crisis
A well-designed deposit insurance system (DIS) will provide incentives for citizens to keep the financial system sound. However, a poorly designed DIS can foster a financial crisis. This paper, therefore, makes rec...

3 Domestic Lending in Foreign Currency »
Source: Building Strong Banks Through Surveillance and Resolution
Series: Books
Author(s): Charles Enoch , Dewitt Marston , and Michael Taylor
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 18 September 2002
ISBN: 9781589060432
Keywords: banking, loans, restructuring, debt, asset management
The availability of foreign currency loans to domestic borrowers has expanded as a natural result of increased global liquidity and the liberalization of domestic fi...

5 Emergency Liquidity Support Facilities »
Source: Building Strong Banks Through Surveillance and Resolution
Series: Books
Author(s): Charles Enoch , Dewitt Marston , and Michael Taylor
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 18 September 2002
ISBN: 9781589060432
Keywords: banking, loans, restructuring, debt, asset management
This chapter discusses the operational aspects of emergency liquidity support by central banks to individual institutions under stress. 1...