7th OECD Forum on African Public Debt Management

Taking place in South Africa, the 7th Annual Forum on African Public Debt Management will focus on current priorities relating to African public debt management and bond markets.

International capital mobility and financial fragility: Part 6. Are all forms of financial integration equally risky in times of financial turmoil? Asset price contagion during the global financial crisis

Using the 2008-09 global financial crisis, this paper examines the role of different forms of international financial integration for asset price contagion in crisis times.

International capital mobility and financial fragility: Part 7. Enhancing Financial Stability: Country-specific evidence on Financial Account and Structural Policy Positions

This paper brings together the results from new empirical analysis on how – under international capital mobility – financial account structure and structural policies can contribute to financial stability.

G20/OECD Policy Note on Pension Fund Financing for Green Infrastructure and Initiatives

Prepared for the G20 Los Cabos Summit, this policy note discusses the potential for and the barriers to pension funds investing in green infrastructure projects.

G20 Leaders Endorse OECD INFE High-Level Principles on National Strategies for Financial Education

This endorsement reinforces the role of the Principles as one of the key global guidance instruments on financial education and awareness and as an overarching policy instrument offering governments and public authorities non-binding international guidance and policy options in order to develop efficient national strategies for financial education.

Improving the Assessment of Disaster Risks to Strengthen Financial Resilience

Given the systemic dimension and country spill-overs in certain catastrophic risks, the G20 is well suited to play an important role through the exchange of best practices and experiences to address events that, according to our analysis, cost the world economy nearly $350 billion last year.

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International capital mobility and financial fragility: Part 5. Do investors disproportionately shed assets of distant countries under increased uncertainty? Evidence from the global financial crisis

The global crisis of 2008-09 went in hand with sharp fluctuations in capital flows. To some extent, these fluctuations may have been attributable to uncertainty-averse investors indiscriminately selling assets about which they had poor information, including those in geographically distant locations.

International capital mobility and financial fragility: Part 3. How do structural policies affect financial crisis risk? Evidence from past crises across OECD and emerging economies

This paper examines how structural policies can influence a country's risk of suffering financial turmoil.

International capital mobility and financial fragility: Part 4. Which structural policies stabilise capital flows when investors suddenly change their mind? Evidence from bilateral bank data

The global financial crisis of 2007-09 and the ensuing sovereign debt crisis in Europe provide evidence that portfolio rebalancing of financial investors can contribute to spread financial turmoil across countries.

Implicit Guarantees for Bank Debt: Where Do We Stand?

The incidence of perceived implicit guarantees, mostly from governments, for the debt of European banks has decreased recently after several years of increase dating from the beginning of the financial crisis. This reflects to a large extent the deterioration in the strength of the sovereigns that are seen as providing the guarantees..