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Credit, Asset Prices, and Financial Stress in Canada
Staff Working Paper 2008-10
Miroslav Misina,
Greg Tkacz
Historical narratives typically associate financial crises with credit expansions and asset price misalignments. The question is whether some combination of measures of credit and asset prices can be used to predict these events.
Content Type(s):
Staff research,
Staff working papers
Topic(s):
Credit and credit aggregates,
Financial stability
JEL Code(s):
E,
E5,
G,
G1,
G10
Sterilized Intervention in Emerging-Market Economies: Trends, Costs, and Risks
Staff Discussion Paper 2008-4
Robert Lavigne
The author examines recent trends in sterilized intervention among emerging-market economies, to determine the size and extent of this policy in relation to earlier periods of heavy reserve accumulation. He then analyzes whether the domestic costs and risks of substantial and prolonged sterilization are beginning to manifest themselves.
Content Type(s):
Staff research,
Staff discussion papers
Topic(s):
Exchange rate regimes,
Financial stability,
International topics
JEL Code(s):
E,
E5,
E52,
F,
F3,
F31,
O,
O2,
O24
Unsecured Debt, Consumer Bankruptcy, and Small Business
Staff Working Paper 2008-5
Césaire Meh,
Yaz Terajima
In this paper we develop a quantitative model of entrepreneurial activity (risk-taking) and consumer bankruptcy choices and use the model to study the effects of bankruptcy regulations on entrepreneurial activity, bankruptcy rate and welfare.
Content Type(s):
Staff research,
Staff working papers
Topic(s):
Economic models,
Financial stability,
Financial system regulation and policies
JEL Code(s):
D,
D3,
D31,
E,
E2,
E21,
J,
J2,
J23
Hedge Funds and Financial Stability: The State of the Debate
Staff Discussion Paper 2007-9
Michael R. King,
Philipp Maier
The authors review the state of the debate on hedge funds and the potential threat that hedge funds pose to financial stability. The collapse of a hedge fund or a group of hedge funds might pose a systemic risk directly by damaging systematically important financial institutions, or indirectly by increasing market volatility and generating a […]
Content Type(s):
Staff research,
Staff discussion papers
Topic(s):
Financial institutions,
Financial stability,
Financial system regulation and policies
JEL Code(s):
G,
G1,
G15,
G18,
G2
A vision for IMF Surveillance
Staff Working Paper 2007-37
Robert Lavigne,
Philipp Maier,
Eric Santor
The ongoing review of the IMF, initiated in 2005 by Managing Director De Rato, presents an excellent opportunity to re-examine the role, functions and governance of the Fund.
Content Type(s):
Staff research,
Staff working papers
Topic(s):
Financial stability,
International topics
JEL Code(s):
F,
F3,
F33
Managing Adverse Dependence for Portfolios of Collateral in Financial Infrastructures
Staff Working Paper 2007-25
Alejandro García,
Ramazan Gençay
We propose a framework that allows a portfolio manager to quantify the probability of simultaneous losses in multiple assets of a collateral portfolio. Using this framework, we propose a methodology to conduct stress tests on the market value of the portfolio of collateral when undesirable extreme dependence occurs.
Content Type(s):
Staff research,
Staff working papers
Topic(s):
Econometric and statistical methods,
Financial markets,
Financial stability
JEL Code(s):
C,
C1,
C10,
G,
G0,
G00,
G1,
G10
Firms Dynamics, Bankruptcy Laws and Total Factor Productivity
Staff Working Paper 2007-17
Hajime Tomura
This paper analyzes endogenous fluctuations in total factor productivity (TFP) in a dynamic general equilibrium model with heterogeneous agents, and illustrates the interaction of credit market frictions, asset prices, the entry and exit of firms, and fluctuations in TFP in response to firm-level productivity and aggregate credit-market shocks. I also analyze the effect of bankruptcy and foreclosure laws on fluctuations in TFP through their effect on credit market frictions.
Content Type(s):
Staff research,
Staff working papers
Topic(s):
Financial stability,
Productivity
JEL Code(s):
D,
D2,
D24,
E,
E4,
E44,
G,
G3,
G33
Do We Need the IMF to Resolve a Crisis? Lessons from Past Episodes of Debt Restructuring
Staff Working Paper 2007-10
Philipp Maier
This study investigate how debt restructurings have evolved over the decades. Debtors and creditors have a long history of engaging an outsider – a “third party”, such as the IMF – to organise and facilitate debt restructurings.
Content Type(s):
Staff research,
Staff working papers
Topic(s):
Financial stability,
International topics
JEL Code(s):
E,
E5,
F,
F3,
N,
N1,
N2
Stress Testing the Corporate Loans Portfolio of the Canadian Banking Sector
Staff Working Paper 2006-47
Miroslav Misina,
David Tessier,
Shubhasis Dey
Stress testing, at its most general level, is an investigation of the performance of an entity under abnormal operating conditions.
Content Type(s):
Staff research,
Staff working papers
Topic(s):
Financial institutions,
Financial stability
JEL Code(s):
C,
C1,
C15,
G,
G2,
G21,
G3,
G33