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Brazil: Financial System Stability Assessment

Release Date: July, 2012

Price: $18.00

Indonesia: CPSS Core Principles for Systemically Important Payment Systems

Release Date: July, 2012

Price: $18.00

Indonesia: Detailed Assessment of Observance of IMF Code of Good Practices on Transparency in Monetary and Financial Policies

Release Date: July, 2012

Price: $18.00

Estimating the Implicit Inflation Target of the South African Reserve Bank

Author/Editor: Nir Klein.

Release Date: July, 2012

Price: $18.00

This paper applies a state-space approach to estimate the implicit inflation target of the South African Reserve Bank (SARB) since the adoption of the Inflation Targeting (IT) framework. The paper's more...



Building Blocks for Effective Macroprudential Policies in Latin America: Institutional Considerations

Author/Editor: Luis Ignacio Jácome, Erlend Nier, Patrick A. Imam.

Release Date: July, 2012

Price: $18.00

An increasing number of countries - including in Latin America - are reforming their financial stability frameworks in the aftermath of the financial crisis, in order to establish a stronger more...



Spain - Financial System Stability Assessment

Release Date: June, 2012

Price: $18.00

Banks' Liability Structure and Mortgage Lending During the Financial Crisis

Author/Editor: Jihad Dagher, Kazim Kazimov.

Release Date: June, 2012

Price: $18.00

We examine the impact of banks’ exposure to market liquidity shocks through wholesale funding on their supply of credit during the financial crisis in the United States. We focus on more...



Leverage? What Leverage? A Deep Dive into the U.S. Flow of Funds in Search of Clues to the Global Crisis

Author/Editor: Ashok Vir Bhatia, Tamim Bayoumi.

Release Date: June, 2012

Price: $18.00

This paper questions the view that leverage should have forewarned us of the global financial crisis of 2007-09, pointing to several gearing indicators that were neither useful portents of the onset more...



Dynamic Loan Loss Provisioning: Simulations on Effectiveness and Guide to Implementation

Author/Editor: Torsten Wezel, Jorge A. Chan Lau, Francesco Columba.

Release Date: May, 2012

Price: $18.00

This simulation-based paper investigates the impact of different methods of dynamic provisioning on bank soundness and shows that this increasingly popular macroprudential tool can smooth more...



Alternative Monetary Policy Rules for India

Author/Editor: Michael Debabrata Patra, Muneesh Kapur.

Release Date: May, 2012

Price: $18.00

This paper empirically evaluates the operational performance of the McCallum rule, the Taylor rule and hybrid rules in India over the period 1996-2011 using quarterly data, with a view to more...



Welfare Effects of Monetary Integration: the Common Monetary Area and Beyond

Author/Editor: Tamon Asonuma, Xavier Debrun, Paul R. Masson.

Release Date: May, 2012

Price: $18.00

This paper proposes a quantitative assessment of the welfare effects arising from the Common Monetary Area (CMA) and an array of broader grouping among Southern African Development Community (SADC) more...



Saudi Arabia: Financial System Stability Assessment - Update

Release Date: April, 2012

Price: $18.00

Israel: Detailed Assessment of Observance of Basel Committee on Payments and Settlement Systems Core Principles for Systemically Important Payment Systems

Release Date: April, 2012

Price: $18.00

People’s Republic of China: Detailed Assessment Report: CPSS Core Principles for Systemically Important Payment Systems

Release Date: April, 2012

Price: $18.00

Money and Collateral

Author/Editor: Manmohan Singh, Peter Stella.

Release Date: April, 2012

Price: $18.00

Between 1980 and before the recent crisis, the ratio of financial market debt to liquid assets rose exponentially in the U.S. (and in other financial markets), reflecting in part the greater use of more...



Central Bank Independence and Macro-prudential Regulation

Author/Editor: Kenichi Ueda, Fabian Valencia.

Release Date: April, 2012

Price: $18.00

We consider the optimality of various institutional arrangements for agencies that conduct macro-prudential regulation and monetary policy. When a central bank is in charge of price and financial more...



Capital Regulation, Liquidity Requirements and Taxation in a Dynamic Model of Banking

Author/Editor: Gianni De Nicoló, Andrea Gamba, Marcella Lucchetta.

Release Date: March, 2012

Price: $18.00

This paper studies the impact of bank regulation and taxation in a dynamic model with banks exposed to credit and liquidity risk. We find an inverted U-shaped relationship between capital more...



Revisiting Risk-Weighted Assets

Author/Editor: Vanessa Le Leslé, Sofiya Avramova.

Release Date: March, 2012

Price: $18.00

In this paper, we provide an overview of the concerns surrounding the variations in the calculation of risk-weighted assets (RWAs) across banks and jurisdictions and how this might undermine the more...



Two Targets, Two Instruments: Monetary and Exchange Rate Policies in Emerging Market Economies

Author/Editor: Marcos Chamon, Jonathan David Ostry, Atish R Ghosh.

Release Date: February, 2012

Price: $20.00

This note examines the costs and benefits of using two policy instruments—the policy interest rate and sterilized foreign exchange market intervention—in emerging market economies (EMEs) seeking more...



The Valuation Effects of Geographic Diversification: Evidence from U.S. Banks

Author/Editor: Martin Goetz, Luc Laeven, Ross Levine.

Release Date: February, 2012

Price: $18.00

This paper assesses the impact of the geographic diversification of bank holding company (BHC) assets across the United States on their market valuations. Using two novel identification strategies more...



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