International Financial Integration And Funding Risks Bank Level Evidence From Latin America

Author : Mr.Luis Catão
Publisher : International Monetary Fund
ISBN 13 : 1484324765
Total Pages : 42 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book International Financial Integration and Funding Risks: Bank-Level Evidence from Latin America written by Mr.Luis Catão and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 2017-10-31 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using a sample of over 700 banks in Latin America, we show that international financial liberalization lowers bank capital ratios and increases the shares of short-term funding. Following liberalization, large banks substitute interbank borrowing for equity and long-term funding, whereas small banks increase the proportions of retail funding in their liabilities, which have been particularly vulnerable to flight-to-quality during periods of financial distress in much of Latin America. We also find evidence that riskier bank funding in the aftermath of financial liberalizations is exacerbated by asymmetric information, which rises on geographical distance and the opacity of balance sheets.

Author : Mr.Charles Enoch
Publisher : International Monetary Fund
ISBN 13 : 1513520245
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Financial Integration in Latin America written by Mr.Charles Enoch and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 2017-04-10 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With growth slowing across much of the Latin America as a result of the end of the commodity supercycle and economic rebalancing in China, as well as fragmentation of the international banking system, policies to stimulate growth are needed. This book examines the financial landscapes of seven Latin American economies—Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Panama, Peru, and Uruguay—and makes a case for them to pursue regional financial integration. Chapters set out the benefits to the region of financial integration, the barriers to cross-border activity in banks, insurance companies, pension funds, and capital markets, as well as recommendations to address these barriers. Finally, the volume makes the case that regional integration now could be a step toward global integration in the short term.

Author : Luc Eyraud
Publisher : International Monetary Fund
ISBN 13 : 1475568681
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Benefits of Global and Regional Financial Integration in Latin America written by Luc Eyraud and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 2017-01-18 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The timing is ripe to pursue greater regional financial integration in Latin America given the withdrawal of some global banks from the region and the weakening of growth prospects. Important initiatives are ongoing to foster financial integration. Failure to capitalize on this would represent a significant missed opportunity. This paper examines the scope for further global and regional financial integration in Latin America, based on economic fundamentals and comparisons to other emerging regions, and quantifies the potential macroeconomic gains that such integration could bring. The analysis suggests that closing the financial integration gap could boost GDP growth be 1⁄4 - 3⁄4 percentage point in these countries, on average.

Author : International Monetary Fund. Western Hemisphere Dept.
Publisher : International Monetary Fund
ISBN 13 : 1498345891
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Financial Integration in Latin America written by International Monetary Fund. Western Hemisphere Dept. and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 2016-04-03 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many Latin American economies have experienced significant reductions in growth recently, as a result of the end of the commodity super-cycle and the rebalancing of China’s growth, and a number of global banks have been leaving the region. AlthoughLatin American countries were generally less affected by the global financial crisis (GFC) than other regions, the region continues also to suffer from the protracted sluggish growth in advanced economies. In addition, there has since 2008 been a withdrawal of global banks from the region, thus potentially worsening access to credit or reducing competition in the financial sector. More broadly, the GFC demonstrated that extreme economic volatility can originate from outside the region, rather than internally, as was the experience of the 1980s and 1990s...

Author : International Monetary Fund
Publisher : International Monetary Fund
ISBN 13 : 1589064925
Total Pages : 141 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Central America written by International Monetary Fund and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 2006-05-09 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Intraregional financial activity in Central America has grown substantially in the past decade, contributing to efficiency and economic development. At the same time, the expansion of activities by regional conglomerates has increased the challenges to supervisory authorities of containing the risks of contagion. Prepared as part of the Central America Financial Sector Regional Project by an IMF and World Bank staff team, this book outlines trends in the region's financial sector integration, supervisory responses, development of the insurance sector, payment and securities settlement arrangements, and worker remittances. It addresses the many common policy challenges facing Central American countries--Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Panama--in financial sector reform. The book offers key policy recommendations.

Author : Mr.Luis Catão
Publisher : International Monetary Fund
ISBN 13 : 1484326385
Total Pages : 42 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book International Financial Integration and Funding Risks: Bank-Level Evidence from Latin America written by Mr.Luis Catão and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 2017-10-30 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using a sample of over 700 banks in Latin America, we show that international financial liberalization lowers bank capital ratios and increases the shares of short-term funding. Following liberalization, large banks substitute interbank borrowing for equity and long-term funding, whereas small banks increase the proportions of retail funding in their liabilities, which have been particularly vulnerable to flight-to-quality during periods of financial distress in much of Latin America. We also find evidence that riskier bank funding in the aftermath of financial liberalizations is exacerbated by asymmetric information, which rises on geographical distance and the opacity of balance sheets.

Author : Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. Development Centre
Publisher : OECD Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Global Finance from a Latin American Viewpoint written by Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. Development Centre and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2000 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Inter-American Development Bank and the OECD Development Centre created the International Forum on Latin American Perspectives as an annual meeting place of ideas and strategies from Latin America and from the OECD region. The tenth meeting of ...

Author : International Monetary Fund. Monetary and Capital Markets Department
Publisher : INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
ISBN 13 : 9781498372930
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Global Financial Stability Report, April 2015 written by International Monetary Fund. Monetary and Capital Markets Department and published by INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND. This book was released on 2015-04-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The current report finds that, despite an improvement in economic prospects in some key advanced economies, new challenges to global financial stability have arisen. The global financial system is being buffeted by a series of changes, including lower oil prices and, in some cases, diverging growth patterns and monetary policies. Expectations for rising U.S. policy rates sparked a significant appreciation of the U.S. dollar, while long term bond yields in many advanced economies have decreased—and have turned negative for almost a third of euro area sovereign bonds—on disinflation concerns and the prospect of continued monetary accommodation. Emerging markets are caught in these global cross currents, with some oil exporters and other facing new stability challenges, while others have gained more policy space as a result of lower fuel prices and reduced inflationary pressures. The report also examines changes in international banking since the global financial crisis and finds that these changes are likely to promote more stable bank lending in host countries. Finally, the report finds that the asset management industry needs to strengthen its oversight framework to address financial stability risks from incentive problems between end-investors and portfolio managers and the risk of runs due to liquidity mismatches.

Author : Stephany Griffith-Jones
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136878092
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book International Finance and Latin America written by Stephany Griffith-Jones and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-11-26 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This reissue, initially published in 1984, examines the evolution of international financial flows to Latin America since 1945, along with their implications for National Development . The book describes how, in each of the first three decades since the war, a new agency emerged (foreign investors in the 1950s, official aid agencies in the 1960s and multinational banks in the 1970s) which was willing to play a dynamic role in generating new financial flows to the region. The lack of such an agent in the 1980s, combined with a reluctance on the part of former investors to maintain their level of assistance culminated in an economic debt crisis in Latin America which this work seeks to address, asking the crucial question: what measures should be taken – both nationally and internationally – to deal with this critical issue , in a way that will both encourage Latin American Development and avoid a major international financial crisis?

Author : Mario Rietti
Publisher : New York : Praeger Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Money and Banking in Latin America written by Mario Rietti and published by New York : Praeger Publishers. This book was released on 1979 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: