Series: Books
Author(s):
Li Ong
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
23
December
2014
ISBN: 9781484368589
This chapter explores how the global turmoil affected the risk of banks operating in Chile and provides evidence that could help strengthen work on vulnerability indicators and off-site supervision. In addit...
Series: Books
Author(s):
Udaibir Das
,
Jonathan Fiechter
, and
Tao Sun
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
23
August
2013
ISBN: 9781616354060
Popular discussions about the prospects of China’s currency—the renminbi—range from the view that it is on the threshold of becoming the dominant global reserve currency to the concern that rapid capital acc...
Series: Books
Author(s):
Udaibir Das
,
Jonathan Fiechter
, and
Tao Sun
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
23
August
2013
ISBN: 9781616354060
In 1998, the Chinese financial system faced a severe challenge. The region was in financial turmoil, and the wave of bankruptcies of state-owned enterprises (SOEs) in the 1990s had produced official nonperfo...
Volume/Issue: 2007/74
Series: IMF Working Papers
Author(s):
Jorge Chan-Lau
,
Srobona Mitra
, and
Li Ong
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
01
April
2007
ISBN: 9781451866384
In this paper, we use the extreme value theory (EVT) framework to analyze contagion risk across the international banking system. We test for the likelihood that an extreme shock affecting a major, systemic U.K. ba...
Volume/Issue: 30/4
Series: IMF Survey
Author(s):
International Monetary Fund. External Relations Dept.
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
01
January
2001
ISBN: 9781451935738
The Web edition of the IMF Survey is updated several times a week, and contains a wealth of articles about topical policy and economic issues in the news. Access the latest IMF research, read interviews, and listen...
Volume: 13
Series: Departmental Papers / Policy Papers
Author(s):
Christian Josz
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
22
October
2013
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5089/9781484305577.087
ISBN: 9781484305577
This note studies Mali’s performance in poverty reduction by analyzing household data from surveys in 2001, 2006 and 2009–10. Mali’s share of poor households has decreased substantially during...
Volume/Issue: 2004/158
Series: IMF Working Papers
Author(s):
Lennart Erickson
, and
Dietrich Vollrath
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
01
August
2004
ISBN: 9781451857610
There are several theories linking land inequality with aspects of economic development. Empirical work on these theories has attempted to establish a relationship between land inequality and institutions, financia...
Volume/Issue: 2010/201
Series: IMF Working Papers
Author(s):
Jemma Dridi
, and
Maher Hasan
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
01
September
2010
ISBN: 9781455205318
This paper examines the performance of Islamic banks (IBs) and conventional banks (CBs) during the recent global crisis by looking at the impact of the crisis on profitability, credit and asset growth, and external...
Volume/Issue: 2003/193
Series: IMF Working Papers
Author(s):
Robert Townsend
, and
Kenichi Ueda
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
01
September
2003
ISBN: 9781451859836
We propose a coherent unified approach to the study of the linkages among economic growth, financial structure, and inequality, bringing together disparate theoretical and empirical literature. That is, we show how...
Volume/Issue: 2001/160
Series: IMF Working Papers
Author(s):
Vassili Prokopenko
, and
Paul Holden
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
01
October
2001
ISBN: 9781451857740
This paper reviews current thinking on the relationship between financial development and poverty alleviation-a subject that has grown increasingly important in the policy prescriptions of the IMF and other interna...