Global Financial Stability Report, April 2011: Durable Financial Stability: Getting There from Here

Global Financial Stability Report, April 13, 2011

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Bibliographic details

• Published: April 13, 2011
• Series: Global Financial Stability Report
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781616350604.082

Executive summary and purpose

• Despite ongoing economic recovery and improvements in global financial stability, structural weaknesses and vulnerabilities remain in some important financial systems.
• The report highlights how risks have changed over the past six months, traces the sources and channels of financial distress with an emphasis on sovereign risk, notes the pressures arising from capital inflows in emerging economies, and discusses policy proposals under consideration to mend the global financial system.
• Publication date: April 13, 2011.

Major findings and analysis

• Changes in risk over the past six months are documented, with particular attention to sovereign risk as a source and channel of financial distress.
• Structural weaknesses and vulnerabilities persist in some important financial systems despite broader improvements in global financial stability.
• Pressures from capital inflows in emerging economies are identified as a notable concern for financial stability.

Policy proposals and discussion

• The report discusses policy proposals under consideration to mend the global financial system (no specific proposals are enumerated on this page).

Subject coverage and keywords

• Subject: Banking; Emerging and frontier financial markets; Financial institutions; Financial markets; Financial regulation and supervision; Financial sector policy and analysis; Housing; Housing prices; Liquidity risk; Mortgages; National accounts; Prices; Systemic risk.
• Keywords: Asia and Pacific; bottom; Caribbean; commercial paper; credit default swap; credit growth; economic structure; Emerging and frontier financial markets; emerging market bond Index; Europe; funding disruption; GFSR; Global; Housing; Housing prices; IMF country classification; liquidity risk; Liquidity risk; liquidity shortfall; long-term debt; Middle East; mortgage loan; mortgage market; Mortgages; North Africa; short-term debt; staff assessment; Systemic risk.

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