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| Why Does the Yield Curve Predict Economic Activity? Dissecting the Evidence for Germany and the United States? Working paper by Frank Smets and Kostas Tsatsaronis. Requires Acrobat Reader.
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Euro and European Financial Markets Working paper that argues that the introduction of the euro would have a more immediate impact on European bond markets than on banking markets. Requires Acrobat Reader.
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Varieties of Monetary Operating Procedures: Balancing Monetary Objectives With Market Efficiency Working paper that reviews issues confronting central banks in their choice of monetary operating instruments and techniques. Requires Acrobat Reader.
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Inequality, Transfers and Growth - New Evidence from the Economic Transition in Poland Working paper by Michael Keane and Eswar Prasad of the Research Department of the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
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Treatment of Potential Exposure for Off-Balance-Sheet Items - April 1995 (PDF) Paper that amends the treatment of off-balance-sheet items in the Basle Capital Accord. Requires Acrobat Reader.
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Impact of Intersectoral Labor Reallocation on Economic Growth Working paper by Helene Poirson of the Research Department of the International Monetary Fund.
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On the Accounting Valuation of Employee Stock Options Paper develops a binomial valuation model that simultaneously takes into consideration the most significant differences between standard call options and employee stock options. By Mark Rubenstein, 1994. Requires Acrobat Reader.
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Owen Lamont: Does Diversification Destroy Value? (pdf version) An examination of the common wisdom that corporates which diversify their holdings tend to increase shareholder value. The paper finds the opposite to be the case. Adobe Acrobat required.
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Costly Collateral and the Public Supply of Liquidity Working paper by Philip Schellekens of the Research Department of the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
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Higher Profits and Lower Capital Prices: is Factor Allocation Optimal? Working paper that addresses the European rate of unemployment over the past decades. Requires Acrobat Reader.
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Real Effects of High Inflation Working paper by Benedikt Braumann of the Western Hemisphere Department of the International Monetary Fund.
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Clearing Arrangements for Exchange Traded Derivatives Working paper that describes and analyzes clearing arrangements for exchange-traded derivatives in the Group of 10 countries. Requires Acrobat Reader.
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Management of banks' international lending - March 1982 Working paper that considers issues related to the measurement of country risk and suggests ways in which banks can manage it. Requires Acrobat Reader.
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Owen Lamont: The Diversification Discount (pdf version) An explanation of the difference between a conglomerate's value and that of a similarly composed portfolio of single-segment firms. Requires Adobe Acrobat.
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Term Structure of Announcement Effects Working paper that analizes high-frequency responses of the US yield curve to macroeconomic announcements. Requires Acrobat Reader.
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Estimation of Speculative Attack Models: Mexico Yet Again Working paper where standard speculative attack models is applied to Mexican exchange rate regimes over the past 20 years. Requires Acrobat Reader.
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Capital Mobility and the Output-Inflation Tradeoff Working paper by Prakash Loungani, Assaf Razin and Chi-Wa Yuen of the Research Department of the International Monetary Fund.
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Evidence on the Fiscal and Macroeconomic Impact of Privatization Working paper by Steven Barnett of the Fiscal Affairs Department of the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
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WoPEc A service for finding and downloading research results in economics.
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Intra-Group Transactions and Exposures Principles (PDF) Provide banking, securities and insurance supervisors principles for ensuring through the regulatory and supervisory process the prudent management and control of intragroup transactions and exposures by financial conglomerates. (Adobe Required)
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Global Asset Allocation in Fixed Income Markets Working paper that addresses asset allocation under the assumption that the investment universe is composed of unhedged risk-free bonds in different countries. Requires Acrobat Reader.
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Enhancing Bank Transparency - September 1998 Working paper with guidelines for banks and supervisors on public disclosure in financial reports. Requires Acrobat Reader.
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Social Science Research Network (SSRN) The SSRN is devoted to the rapid worldwide dissemination of social science research and is composed of specialized research networks in each of the social sciences.
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Is There Excess Comovement of Bond Yields Between Countries? Working paper that examines the issues of excess volatility and excess comovement of interest rates among global bond markets. Requires Acrobat Reader.
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Interpretation of the Capital Accord for the Multilateral Netting of Forward Value Foreign Exchange Transactions (PDF) Provides an interpretation of the Basle Committee's Capital Accord for banks which participate in a multilateral netting arrangement for foreign exchange contracts; focuses on forward replacement risk. (Adobe Required)
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Managing Financial Crises - The Experience in East Asia Working paper by Jack Boorman, Timothy Lane, Marianne Schulze-Ghattas, Ales Bulir and Atish R. Ghosh of the International Monetary Fund.
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Amendment of the Basle Capital Accord in respect of the inclusion of general Provisions/General Loan-Loss Reserves in Capital Working paper that redefines the criteria for the inclusion of general provisions or loan-loss reserves in bank capital under the terms of the Basle Capital Accord.
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What Should Macroeconomists Know About Health Care Policy - A Primer Working paper by William Hsiao of the Fiscal Affairs Department of the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
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Economics WPA (Working PaperArchive) A free distribution of working abstract or announcement papers in economics covering 22 subject areas provided by the Economics Department of Washington University.
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Precarious Credit Equilibria: Reflections on the Asian Financial Crisis Working paper that examines some of the origins of the recent East Asian financial crisis. Requires Acrobat Reader.
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A note on the Gordon Growth Model With Nonstationary Dividend Growth Working paper by Henri Pagès. Requires Acrobat Reader.
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Portfolio Selection Using Fuzzy Decision Theory Working paper by Srichander Ramaswamy that presents an approach to portfolio selection using fuzzy decision theory. Requires Acrobat Reader.
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One-Step Prediction of Financial Time Series Working paper that examines the one-step prediction of financial time series from a binary decision theory perspective. Requires Acrobat Reader.
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Sound Practices for Loan Accounting and Disclosure (PDF) This document provides guidance to banks and banking supervisors on recognition and measurement of loans, establishment of loan loss allowances, credit risk disclosure and related matters. (Adobe Required)
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Filtering the BEER - A Permanent and Transitory Decomposition Working paper by Peter B. Clark and Ronald MacDonald of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) about the behavioral equilibrium exchange rate (BEER).
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Statistics on Payment Systems in the Group of Ten Countries - 1995 Annual publication with data on payments and payment systems in the Group of 10 countries. Requires Acrobat Reader.
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Taylor Rule and Interest Rates in the EMU Area Working paper on average interest rates in the EMU countries in 1990-98, with the exception of the period of exchange market turmoil in 1992-93. Requires Acrobat Reader.
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The Financier Library of published reports on asset securitization, corporate finance, project finance and risk management.
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Asset transfers and securitisation - September 1992 Working paper that reviews aspects of asset transfers and securitiy from a supervisory perspective. Requires Acrobat Reader.
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International Agreements in the Area of Banking and Finance: Accomplishments and Outstanding Issues Working paper by William R. White. Requires Acrobat Reader.
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Sacrifice Ratios and the Conduct of Monetary Policy in Conditions of Low Inflation Working paper by Palle Andersen and William Wascher. Requires Acrobat Reader.
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Output Gap Uncertainty: Does it Matter for the Taylor Rule? Working paper that analyzes the effect of measurement error in the output gap on efficient monetary policy rules. Requires Acrobat Reader.
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Sound Practices for Banks' Interactions With Highly Leveraged Institutions - January 1999 Working paper analyzing banks' interactions with highly leveraged institutions (HLIs), together with guidance on sound practices in such dealings. Requires Acrobat Reader.
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Statistics on Payment Systems in the Group of Ten Countries - 1996 Annual publication that provides data on payments and payment systems in the Group of 10 countries. Requires Acrobat Reader.
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Does the Term Structure Predict Recessions? Working paper by Henri Bernard and Stefan Gerlach. Requires Acrobat Reader.
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Supervisory Framework for the Use of "backtesting" in Conjunction With the Internal Models Approach to Market risk Capital Requirements (PDF) Presents a methodology for testing the accuracy of the models used by banks to measure their market risks. (Adobe Required)
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Determinants of Inflation in the Islamic Republic of Iran-A Macroeconomic Analysis Working paper by Olin Liu and Olumuyiwa S. Adedeji of the Middle Eastern Department of the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
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Reserve Currency Allocation: An Alternative Methodology Working paper that provides a framework for choosing the composition of reserve currencies. Requires Acrobat Reader.
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A Defence of the Expectations Theory as a Model of US Long-Term Interest Rates Working paper that examines the empirical content of the expectations theory of the term structure to study the behavior of US government yield spreads. Requires Acrobat Reader.
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Global Financial Crises - Institutions and Incentives Working paper by Manmohan S. Kumar, Paul R. Masson and Marcus Miller of the International Monetary Fund Research Department.
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Monetary Policy Operating Procedures in Industrial Countries Working paper that reviews monetary policy implementation procedures to highlight similarities and differences across countries. Requires Acrobat Reader.
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The Euro and the Dollar Working paper that uses portfolio theory to analyze the likelihood and impact of shifts between the dollar and the euro. Requires Acrobat Reader.
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The Dollar - Mark Axis Working paper that examines the correlation of cyclical fluctuations and the bias of international investors in the currency composition of their portfolios. Requires Acrobat Reader.
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Wage Flexibility and Economic Performance - Evidence Across Industrial Countries Working paper by Magda Kandil of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) with empirical evidence on the degree of nominal wage flexibility in 19 industrial countries.
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Corruption and the Provision of Health Care and Education Services Working paper by Sanjeev Gupta, Hamid Davoodi and Erwin Tiongson of the Fiscal Affairs Department of the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
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Note on Alternative Measures of Real Bond Rates Working paper by Palle Andersen. Requires Acrobat Reader.
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Sound Practices for Loan Accounting and Disclosure - July 1999 Working paper that provides guidance to banks and supervisors on loan measurement, loan loss allowance and credit risk disclosure. Requires Acrobat Reader.
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Optimal Fiscal Strategy for Oil Exporting Countries Working paper by Rodrigo Valdes and Eduardo Engel of the Research Department of the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
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International Convergence of Capital Measurement and Capital Standards - July 1988 Original text of the Basle Capital Accord, which sets down the agreement among the Group of 10 central banks to apply minimum capital standards. Requires Acrobat Reader.
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Inflation and Disinflation in Iceland Working paper by Palle S. Andersen and Már Guðmundsson. Requires Acrobat Reader.
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