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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...



Asymmetric Effects of the Financial Crisis: Collateral-Based Investment-Cash Flow Sensitivity Analysis

Author/Editor: Vadim Khramov.

Release Date: April, 2012

Price: $18.00

This paper uses the financial crisis of 2008 as a natural experiment to demonstrate that when measuring investment-cash flow sensitivity, the value of a firm's assets that can be used as collateral more...



Guyana : Selected Issues

Release Date: September, 2010

Price: $18.00

The aim is to analyze the main channels of transmission for shocks from the global economy to Guyana and assess their specific spillover magnitudes. The paper documents the transmission channels of more...



The Us Federal Debt Outlook: Reading the Tea Leaves (Pdf Download)

Release Date: March, 2010

Price: $0.00

Crisis Management and Resolution for a European Banking System (Pdf Download)

Release Date: March, 2010

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Canada's Potential Growth: Another Victim of the Crisis?

Author/Editor: Marcello M Estevão, Evridiki Tsounta.

Release Date: January, 2010

Price: $18.00

This study investigates the impact of the current financial crisis on Canada's potential GDP growth. Using a simple accounting framework to decompose trend GDP growth into changes in capital, labor more...



United States:2008 Article IV Consultation: Staff Report; Staff Supplement; and Public Information Notice on the Executive Board Discussion

Release Date: July, 2008

Price: $20.00

This 2008 Article IV Consultation highlights that problems in the housing and financial markets over the past year have combined to slow the United States' economy substantially. As the residential more...



Uruguay : Selected Issues

Release Date: December, 2006

Price: $18.00

This report includes five background studies with emphasis on vulnerabilities and growth, the focus of the 2006 Article IV Consultation with Uruguay. Stocks of key financial balance sheet more...



The IMF and Recent Capital Account Crises

Author/Editor: Kevin Barnes, Ali M. Mansoor, Benjamin H. Cohen, Shinji Takagi.

Release Date: September, 2003

Price: $25.00

This report evaluates the role of the IMF in three capital account crises, in Indonesia (1997-98), Korea (1997-98), and Brazil (1998-99), and the lessons to be drawn from the experience. It also more...



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