IMF Global Financial Stability Report: Navigating Monetary Policy Challenges and Managing Risks
Global Financial Stability Report, April 8, 2015
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- Published: April 8, 2015
- Series: Global Financial Stability Report
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- April 2015
Major findings and risk assessment
- Global financial stability risks have risen since October.
- Risks are rotating:
- away from banks to shadow banks;
- from solvency to market liquidity risks;
- from advanced economies to emerging markets.
- In advanced economies, key challenges:
- enhance the traction of accommodative monetary policies;
- ensure a smooth normalization of monetary policy in the United States;
- manage the undesirable side effects of low interest rates.
- In emerging markets, key challenges:
- address domestic financial vulnerabilities from weaker growth, lower commodity prices, and a stronger dollar;
- strengthen resilience to the changing global environment.
Chapter 1 — Enhancing policy traction and reducing risks (summary of substantive analysis)
- Reiterates that global financial stability risks have risen since October and are rotating across sectors and regions.
- Highlights disinflationary forces and asset valuation and volatility concerns (referenced figures: Global Disinflationary Forces; Asset Valuation and Volatility Heat Maps).
- Documents potential spillovers and sector impacts, including:
- The Oil Price Fallout—Spillovers and Implications for the Financial Sector (Box 1.1).
- Russia’s Financial Risks and Potential Spillovers (Box 1.2).
- Identifies undesirable side effects of prolonged low interest rates and the policy challenge of managing portfolio rebalancing effects (referenced: Quantitative Easing Impact Channels; Illustrative “Baseline” QE Portfolio Rebalancing Scenarios in Japan and the Euro Area).
- Provides empirical and tabulated evidence on household and corporate debt across advanced economies (Tables 1.1 and 1.2) and on sovereign, corporate, and banking indicators (Table 1.5).
Chapter 2 — International banking after the crisis: increasingly local and safer? (substantive analysis)
- Documents a shift from direct cross-border lending to local lending by foreign banks’ affiliates.
- Identifies drivers of the decline in cross-border lending:
- regulatory changes;
- weaknesses in bank balance sheets;
- macroeconomic factors.
- Notes that the shift can positively affect host-country financial stability:
- cross-border lending tends to compound adverse domestic and global shocks;
- foreign-owned subsidiaries behave less procyclically than domestic banks during domestic crises.
- Calls for more international cooperation to maximize benefits of international banking while mitigating risks.
- Analytical emphases and empirical materials include:
- The international expansion of Chinese and Japanese banks;
- Expansion of pan-African banks;
- Banking union developments in Europe;
- Areas in need of regulatory and supervisory attention for global banks.
- Empirical/table/figure coverage referenced (selected): Developments in Foreign Banking Claims; Changes in Capital Flows; Effect of International Banking Linkages on Domestic Credit Growth; Lending Growth by Domestic and Foreign-Owned Banks during Crises.
Chapter 3 — The asset management industry and financial stability (substantive analysis)
- Focuses on risks from the asset management industry, including “plain-vanilla” products such as mutual funds.
- Identifies key risk mechanisms:
- incentive problems created by delegated management that may lead to herding;
- run risk stemming from liquidity mismatches between fund assets and investor redemption rights;
- first-mover advantages created by fund share pricing rules.
- Empirical analysis finds evidence for many of these risk-creating mechanisms, with importance varying across markets.
- Policy implication: oversight of the industry should be strengthened through better microprudential supervision of risks and by adopting a more-encompassing (macroprudential) approach.
- Sections and empirical topics highlighted include: Fund Share Pricing Rules and First-Mover Advantage; Mutual Fund Flows and Asset Returns; Liquidity Mismatches; Growth in Bond Funds by Investment Focus; Contribution to Systemic Risk by Mutual Funds.
Policy recommendations and supervisory implications (synthesized from report text)
- Advanced economies should:
- enhance policy traction of accommodative monetary settings;
- ensure smooth U.S. monetary policy normalization;
- manage side effects of low interest rates, including portfolio rebalancing risks.
- Emerging markets should:
- address domestic vulnerabilities from weaker growth, lower commodity prices, and a stronger dollar;
- strengthen resilience to changing global financial conditions.
- International banking sector:
- increase international cooperation to capture benefits of regionalized/localized banking while mitigating cross-border spillovers.
- Asset management industry:
- strengthen oversight and supervision of mutual funds and similar vehicles;
- adopt microprudential measures focused on liquidity risk management and incentive structures;
- adopt macroprudential approaches where industry-wide run and herding risks can affect system-wide stability.
Key referenced empirical materials and analytical tools (selection)
- Charts and figures referenced include: Global Financial Stability Map; Quantitative Easing and Financial Markets; U.S. Interest Rates and Term Premiums; The October 15 Flash Rally in U.S. Treasuries; Emerging Market Nonfinancial Corporate Investment Continues to Shrink; Large Increase in Emerging Market Debt; Financial Stability of Emerging Market Banks.
- Tables and annexes cover household and corporate debt, potential portfolio outflows, and portfolio rebalancing scenarios (for example, Annex Tables 1.2.1 and 1.2.3).
IMF Global Financial Stability Report: Navigating Monetary Policy Challenges and Managing Risks — April 2015
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- Annexfigure1 2 1
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- Table 1.2.3. Potential Portfolio Outflows by Japanese Institutional Investors, 2015�17
- Figure 1.1. Global Financial Stability Map
- Figure 1.10. Illustrative “Baseline” QE Portfolio Rebalancing Scenarios in Japan and the Euro Area
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- Figure 1.12. Bank Nonperforming Loans and Lending Conditions
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- Figure 1.14. United States: Nonfinancial Corporations
- Figure 1.15. U.S. Credit Spreads, Firm Leverage, and Interest Coverage
- Figure 1.16. U.S. High-Yield Energy Markets
- Figure 1.17. U.S. Interest Rates and Term Premiums
- Figure 1.2. Global Financial Stability Map: Components of Risks and Conditions
- Figure 1.20. Asset Comovements and Correlations Spillovers
- Figure 1.21. Wide Range in the Inflation Outlook of Emerging Market Economies
- Figure 1.22. China: Real Estate and Interest Rate Developments
- Figure 1.23. Emerging Market Nonfinancial Corporate Investment Continues to Shrink
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- Figure 1.25. Energy Corporate Sector Metrics
- Figure 1.26. Large Increase in Emerging Market Debt
- Figure 1.27. Firms in Countries with Large Currency Selloffs Also Had High Equity Volatility
- Figure 1.28. Financial Stability of Emerging Market Banks
- Figure 1.3. Global Disinflationary Forces
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- Figure 1.6. Private Nonfinancial Sector Gross Debt
- Figure 1.7. Episodes of Private Sector Deleveraging in Selected Advanced Economies
- Figure 1.8. Insolvency Frameworks and Macroeconomic Deleveraging
- Table 1.1. Household Debt in the Euro Area, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the United States
- Table 1.2. Corporate Debt in the Euro Area, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the United States
- Table 1.4. Energy�s Impact on Two Barclays Corporate Credit Indices
- Table 1.5. Summary of Sovereign, Corporate, and Banking Indicators
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- Figure 2.2.1. Major Pan-African Banks: Cross-Border Expansion, 2002�14
- Figure 2.3.1. Sovereign Bond and Corporate Lending Rates in the Euro Area
- Figure 2.1. Developments in Foreign Banking Claims
- Figure 2.11. Changes in Capital Flows
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- Figure 2.4. Banking Regionalization in Asia
- Figure 2.5. Trends in Latin America and Europe
- Figure 2.7. Changes in Corporate Borrowing
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- Figure 3.2.2. Difference between NAV and ETF Share Price
- Figure 3.1.1. Investment Vehicles by Size, Domicile, and Investment Focus
- Figure 3.1. Financial Intermediation by the Asset Management Industry Worldwide
- Figure 3.10. Liquidity Risk and Fund Structures
- Figure 3.14. Ownership Structure of the 25 Largest Global Asset Management Companies
- Figure 3.15. Bank Financing by Mutual Funds and Money Market Funds
- Figure 3.2. Products Offered by Asset Managers and Their Recent Growth
- Figure 3.3. Key Domiciles of Mutual Funds
- Figure 3.6. Growth in Bond Funds by Investment Focus
- Figure 3.7. Bond Ownership Concentration and Its Effects on Credit Spreads
- Figure 3.8. Drivers of Fund Flows from End Investors
- Figure 1. Major Net Exporters and Importers of Capital in 2013
- Figure 6. U.S. Corporate Bond Market
- Figure 7. Euro Area Corporate Bond Market
- Figure 8. U.S. Commercial Paper Market
- Table 1. Capital Market Size: Selected Indicators, 2013
- Table 10. Emerging Markets: Mutual Funds
- Table 2. MSCI Equity Market Indices
- Table 3. Emerging Markets Bond Index: EMBI Global Sovereign Yield Spreads
- Table 4. Emerging Market Private External Financing: Total Bonds, Equities, and Loans
- Table 5. Emerging Market Private External Financing: Bonds
- Table 6. Emerging Market Private External Financing: Equity
- Table 7. Emerging Market Private External Financing: Loans
- Table 8. Equity Valuation Measures: Dividend-Yield Ratios
- Table 9. Equity Valuation Measures: Price/Earnings Ratios
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- CHAPTER 1 EnhancIng polIcy tractIon and rEducIng rIsks
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- GFSR April 2015: Chapter 3 - The Asset Management Industry And Financial Stability
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