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Spain : Vulnerabilities of Private Sector Balance Sheets and Risks to the Financial Sector Technical Notes

International Monetary Fund - 2012

This technical note assesses the vulnerabilities of household and corporate sector balance sheets and quantifies the … Spanish financial stability arising from household indebtedness. The analysis expands the use of microlevel data to assess … household vulnerabilities, distinguishing between indebted and nonindebted households as well as accounting for the allocation …

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Republic of Serbia Financial Sector Assessment Program Update : Corporate and Household Debt Restructuring

International Monetary Fund - 2009

Nonperforming Loans (NPLs) in the banking system constituted 16.5 percent of total loans, owing primarily to the corporate sector. The Credit Bureau, maintained by the Association of Serbian Banks, also discloses dramatic increases in corporate and retail defaults over the past year. NPL...

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Republic of Serbia : Financial Sector Assessment Program Update: Technical Note on Corporate and Household Debt Restructuring

International Monetary Fund - 2010

This Technical Note assesses Corporate and Household Debt Restructuring in Serbia. As of June 2009, nonperforming loans …

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Spain : Financial Sector Assessment Program: Technical Note: Housing Prices, Household Debt, and Financial Stability

International Monetary Fund - 2006

This report reviews the macroeconomic determinants of the rapid growth in the Spanish housing market, including various policy elements. It examines the vulnerabilities of households' finances as a result of the rapid growth of housing prices and mortgage debt. It also describes the Spanish...

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Japan's Household Savings Rate : An Application of the Life-Cycle Hypothesis

International Monetary Fund - 1987

This paper develops and tests a model of Japan’s household savings rate, based on the life-cycle hypothesis that the … primary motive for savings is provision for retirement. The paper shows that Japan’s high household savings rate in recent …

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Urban and Rural Household Savings in China

International Monetary Fund - 1988

Household savings behavior in China during the past 30 years has been studied by using econometric models with the time …

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Consumer Price Index Manual : Theory, 2025

International Monetary Fund - 2025

Cooperation and Development (OECD), the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE), and the World Bank. The IMF managed …

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Floating Currencies, Gold, and SDR's : Some Recent Legal Developments

International Monetary Fund - 1976

This paper outlines legal developments related to floating currencies, gold, and special drawing rights (SDRs) in the IMF. The Articles of the Fund require each member to establish a par value for its currency in terms of gold as a common denominator. Alternatively, the par value may be...

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Thoughts on An international Monetary Fund Based Fully on the SDR

International Monetary Fund - 1979

This paper discusses the possibility of an IMF that would be based fully on the special drawing right (SDR). The paper explores the basic economic justification for a General Department restructured in this way, the broad outline of the structure that would have to be established, the liquidity...

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Floating Currencies, SDR's & Gold Further Legal Developments

International Monetary Fund - 1977

This paper examines legal developments in area of floating currencies, special drawing rights, and gold in the IMF. It highlights that the breakdown of the par value system of the original Articles of the IMF and the failure of the IMF's efforts to substitute a comparable system based on central...

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