Finland: Selected Issues

December 7, 2016

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Finland: Selected Issues, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2016) accessed September 20, 2024

Summary

This Selected Issues paper examines Finland’s sectoral balance sheets and how they have evolved since the global financial crisis; the analysis reveals that financial vulnerabilities have risen in most sectors. Indebtedness has increased for nonfinancial corporations (NFCs), households, and the government, increasing their financial fragility and vulnerability to shocks. Also, cross-border financial exposures have risen on both sides of Finland’s balance sheet. Specifically, banks’ balance sheets have grown considerably, largely owing to a rise in foreign liabilities. NFCs and the government have also relied in part on foreign investors to finance their debt increases.

Subject: Banking, Commodity markets, Financial institutions, Financial markets, Financial statements, Production, Productivity, Public financial management (PFM), Stocks, Total factor productivity

Keywords: Accounts payable, Commodity markets, Company size, CR, Financial statements, Firm, Firm productivity, Firm TFP, Global, ISCR, Private sector, Product market, Productivity, Productivity gain, Stocks, Total factor productivity

Publication Details

Pages:

38
Volume:

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DOI:

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Issue:

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Series:

Country Report No. 2016/369
Stock No:

1FINEA2016003
ISBN:

9781475558036
ISSN:

1934-7685

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