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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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27-Oct-2009
This article looks at insurance companies during the current financial crisis. While insurers as a group have cushioned rather than amplified the downward pressures during the financial crisis due to their relatively long-term investment horizons, some clearly have increased such pressures. Many of the financial instruments that were at the core of difficulties served an insurance function. Therefore it is not too surprising that some insurance companies have been affected by the crisis on one or the other side of their balance sheets, that is on the asset or the liability side.
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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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18-May-2009
Government provision of a safety net for financial institutions has been a key element of the policy response to the current crisis. Existing guarantees have been expanded and new ones introduced, in particular related to bank liabilities. This OECD article , updating and broadening a previous one on deposit insurance discusses various issues that arise from such guarantees. Potential competitive distortions, appropriate pricing and exit strategies, especially where unlimited guarantees have been extended, are some of the main issues raised.
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18-May-2009
The OECD invited public comments on draft General Guidance on a Policy Framework for Effective and Efficient Financial Regulation and a related High-level Checklist. The General Guidance contains principles that should be adopted or considered to promote an effective and efficient framework for government intervention and regulation in the financial system.
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on 12-Nov-2008
Representatives from OECD governments, academia and private sector discussed proposals to support private pension systems, and in particular, improve the management of risks in the retirement stage of individual account (defined contribution, DC) pension systems. Participants also discussed the impact of the financial crisis, and longer term issues affecting the sector such as increasing life expectancy.
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01-Oct-2008
Data and analysis on deposit insurance in OECD countries, including comparative tables on different levels of savings guaranteed. First published in June 2008 as a chapter in Financial Market Trends 94.
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