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Increasingly globalised financial markets challenge policy makers and have more and more impact on the real economy. With the major financial players free to allocate their portfolios between countries, the actions of national authorities are subject to the scrutiny of world financial markets.
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03-Dec-2009
The OECD has established a set of key principles to guide financial policy makers as they look to fundamental reform that will achieve strong, resilient financial systems that play their part in driving economic growth.
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19-Nov-2009
The expansion of guarantees for banks by governments has been a key element of the policy response to the recent financial crisis. This course of action was helpful and it has avoided a further accelerated loss of confidence in banks. But it is not without costs. Costs include those arising from distortions to competition and incentives. Additional costs have arisen as policy actions have not been as closely coordinated across borders as might have been desired. Going forward, policies need to be more consistent.
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27-Oct-2009
This article discusses vulnerabilities in selected segments of the insurance sector and identifies specific issues related to the role of the insurance sector in the current financial crisis.
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17-Sep-2009
The financial crisis required governments to make massive interventions in their financial systems. This book sets out priorities for reforming incentives in financial markets as well as for phasing out these emergency measures.
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10-Jul-2009
This edition focuses on issues related to the financial and economic crisis, including articles on corporate governance lessons, government guarantees for financial institutions, private pensions, sovereign borrowing, government debt issuance, and the role of stock exchanges in corporate governance.
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11-Jun-2009
This article looks at the stages of financial crisis management and some of the different degrees of transparency on losses and risks in the US and Europe. It compares alternative approaches to dealing with impaired assets used in the US and Europe, examines the capital needs of banks where exposure to off-balance losses remains a key issue and outlines the requirements of longer-run reform.
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23-Jun-2009
A new article ("Evaluating Risk Sharing in Private Pension Plans") analyses the main trade-offs embedded in different pension arrangements. The stochastic simulations performed show that hybrid plans (those in between traditional DB and individual DC) appear to offer efficient and sustainable forms of risk sharing.
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