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large increase in debt leverage of the remainder, and an eventual financial and real crisis. The paper presents a …-income households. The model matches the profiles of the income distribution, the debt-to-income ratio and crisis risk for the three …
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-of-court centralized corporate debt workout frameworks—that came to define the core asset management setting in countries most seriously …
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This paper presents evidence on the relative importance of alternative contagion channels during the Thai, Russian, and Brazilian crises. Results show that when crises are measured by changes in sovereign bond spreads, financial competition seems to explain almost all contagion episodes....
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This paper reviews Latvia’s efforts to manage the increase in debt distress resulting from the unwinding of the 2000 … incentives for marked-based debt resolution by improving the legal framework for credit enforcement, introducing tax incentives … for debt write-downs, and strengthening financial sector supervision. These measures have started to yield results, but …
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The global financial crisis affected microfinance institutions (MFIs) as lending growth was constrained by scarcer borrowing opportunities, while the economic slowdown negatively impacted asset quality and profitability. It also brought to the fore the relatively high interest rates that MFIs...
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A key priority for the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries is to create a dynamic non-oil tradable sector to support sustainable growth. Since export diversification takes a long time, it has to start now. We argue that the failure to diversify away from oil stems mainly from market...
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subprime crisis and the Euro Area sovereign debt crisis—have also been key drivers of the sharp rise in bank funding costs …
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We identify current challenges for creating stable, yet efficient financial systems using lessons from recent and past crises. Reforms need to start from three tenets: adopting a system-wide perspective explicitly aimed at addressing market failures; understanding and incorporating into...
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This paper proposes an approach to track US$1 trillion of emerging market government debt held by<br>foreign investors … government debt during 2010–12, mostly<br>coming from foreign asset managers. Foreign central bank holdings have risen as well …
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This paper finds that tightening global financial conditions can worsen emerging economies’ public debt dynamics … means of a Poisson count model—suggests that the frequency of sovereign debt crises increases in emerging economies at the …
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