Author/Editor: José Abad, Antonio Garcia Pascual.

Release Date:January, 2022

Following the COVID shock, supervisors encouraged banks to use capital buffers to support the recovery. However, banks have been reluctant to do so. Provided the market expects a bank to rebuild its more...

Author/Editor: Antonio Garcia Pascual, Ranjit Singh, Jay Surti.

Release Date:September, 2021

The paper's analysis underscores the importance of the ongoing Financial Stability Board-led process of identifying policy options, involving national authorities and the International Organization more...

Author/Editor: Renzo G Avesani, Elina Ribakova, Antonio Garcia Pascual.

Release Date:January, 2007

The rapid mortgage credit growth experienced in recent years in mature and emerging countries has raised some stability concerns. Many European credit institutions in mature markets have reacted by more...

Author/Editor: Antonio Garcia Pascual, Jorge Cayazzo, Socorro Heysen, Eva Gutierrez.

Release Date:January, 2006

The paper presents a supervisory framework that addresses the vulnerabilities of partially dollarized banking systems. The tendency to underprice systemic liquidity risk and currency-induced credit more...

Author/Editor: Antonio Garcia Pascual, Nada Choueiri, Ritu Basu.

Release Date:January, 2006

This paper proposes a framework to check for consistency between the IMF's standard country surveillance tool, namely medium-term projections of the macroeconomic framework (including the real, more...

Author/Editor: Yin-Wong Cheung, Antonio Garcia Pascual, Menzie David Chinn.

Release Date:April, 2004

We reassess exchange rate prediction using a wider set of models that have been proposed in the last decade. The performance of these models is compared against two reference more...