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Systemic Risk Assessment in Low Income Countries: Balancing Financial Stability and Development

By Daniela Marchettini, Rodolfo Maino

August 12, 2015

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Daniela Marchettini, and Rodolfo Maino. Systemic Risk Assessment in Low Income Countries: Balancing Financial Stability and Development, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2015) accessed September 20, 2024
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Summary

We propose a toolkit for the assessment of systemic risk buildup in low income countries. We show that, due to non-linearity in the relationship between credit and financial stability, the assessment should be conducted with different tools at different stages of financial development. In particular, when the level of financial depth is low, traditional leading indicators of banking crises have poor predictive performance and the analysis should be based on indicators that account for financial deepening while taking into consideration countries’ structural limits. By using this framework, we provide a preliminary assessment of systemic risk buildup in individual SSA countries.

Subject: Credit, Credit booms, Economic sectors, Financial crises, Financial markets, Financial sector development, Financial sector policy and analysis, Money, Systemic risk

Keywords: Banking crisis, Credit, Credit booms, Credit bubble, Credit gap measure, Credit growth, Credit standard, Early Warning Indicators, Excess credit, Financial Deepening, Financial sector development, Frontier gap, Global, Sub-Saharan Africa, Systemic Risk

Publication Details

  • Pages:

    40

  • Volume:

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  • DOI:

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  • Issue:

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  • Series:

    Working Paper No. 2015/190

  • Stock No:

    WPIEA2015190

  • ISBN:

    9781513545882

  • ISSN:

    1018-5941

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