Global Financial Stability Report October 2017: Is Growth at Risk?
Global Financial Stability Report, October 2017
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- Published: October 3, 2017
Executive summary and systemic assessment
- The global financial system "continues to strengthen in response to extraordinary policy support, regulatory enhancements, and the cyclical upturn in growth."
- Global bank balance sheets are stronger because of "improved capital and liquidity buffers, amid tighter regulation and heightened market scrutiny."
- Some banks remain challenged by "legacy issues and business model challenges, where progress has been uneven."
- Continuing monetary accommodation "may lead to a continued search for yield where there is too much money chasing too few yielding assets, pushing investors beyond their traditional habitats."
- As the search for yield intensifies:
- Vulnerabilities are shifting to the nonbank sector.
- Market risks are rising.
- There may be "a further compression of risk compensation in markets and higher leverage in the nonfinancial sector."
- Policymakers at both the national and global level "will have to strengthen the financial and macroeconomic policy mix."
Chapter 1 — Financial stability drivers and near-term risks
- Key dynamics:
- Improved bank capital and liquidity buffers.
- Tighter regulation and heightened market scrutiny.
- Legacy bank problems and uneven progress on business-model adjustments.
- Search-for-yield behavior incentivized by prolonged monetary accommodation.
- Risks highlighted:
- Nonbank sector vulnerability buildup.
- Rising market risk and compressed risk premia.
- Potential for higher leverage in the nonfinancial sector.
- Policymaker implication:
- Manage these challenges "carefully to avoid putting growth at risk."
Chapter 2 — Household debt and financial stability
- Cross-country patterns:
- "Large differences in household debt-to-GDP ratios across countries but a common increasing trajectory that was moderated but not reversed by the global financial crisis."
- Median household debt-to-GDP ratios:
- Among advanced economies, the median household debt-to-GDP ratio rose to 63 percent in 2016 from 52 percent in 2008.
- Among emerging economies, it increased to 21 percent from 15 percent over the same period.
- Empirical findings:
- There is a trade-off between a short-term boost to growth from higher household debt and a medium-term risk to macroeconomic and financial stability.
- Higher household debt may result in lower growth, consumption, and employment and a greater risk of banking crises.
- The trade-off is stronger when household debt is higher.
- The adverse effects "can be significantly attenuated by a combination of good policies, institutions, and regulations."
- Policy recommendations and attenuating factors:
- Appropriate macroprudential and financial sector policies.
- Better financial supervision.
- Less dependence on external financing.
- Flexible exchange rates.
- Lower income inequality.
Chapter 3 — Financial conditions and "growth at risk" measure
- Methodology and finding:
- Develops "a new macroeconomic measure of financial stability by linking financial conditions to the probability distribution of future GDP growth."
- Applies the measure to a set of 21 major advanced and emerging market economies.
- Shows that changes in financial conditions "shift the whole distribution of future GDP growth."
- Policy relevance:
- The new measure provides a tool to assess how financial conditions affect downside risks to GDP growth across the distribution.
Notable thematic findings and scenarios
- Search-for-yield and market functioning:
- "Search for yield, asset valuations, and volatility" are central concerns as monetary accommodation persists.
- Structural and regional points:
- Chapters and figures address bank profitability, insurer business models, central bank balance sheets, emerging market capital flows, corporate leverage, and Chinese banking system developments.
- Scenario analysis:
- The report contains a "Global Financial Dislocation Scenario" and analysis of "Emerging Market Economy External Vulnerabilities and Corporate Leverage."
Source: Global Financial Stability Report October 2017: Is Growth at Risk? (October 2017)
Content in this bundle
- Figure 1.1.1. Financial Cycles and Output Gaps
- Figure 1.1. Global Financial Stability Map: Risks and Conditions
- Figure 1.10. Changes in Life Insurance Companies� Business Models
- Fgiure 1.11. Life Insurers' Market Valuations and Risk Outlook
- Figure 1.12. Simulated Mark-to-Market Shocks to Assets and Liabilities
- Figure 1-13. Central Bank Balance Sheets and the Sovereign Sector
- Figure 1.14. Policy Rates, 10-Year Government Bond Yields, and Term Premiums
- dataset overview
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- Figure 1-18. Low-Income Country External Borrowing and Vulnerabilities
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- Figure 1.2. Global Financial Stability Map Components
- Figure 1.20. Long-Term Drivers of the Low-Volatility Regime
- Figure 1.21. Leveraged and Volatility-Targeting Strategies
- Figure 1.22. Vulnerability of the US Corporate Credit Investor Base to Shocks
- Figure 1.23. Group of Twenty Nonfinancial Sector Credit Trends
- Figure 1.24. Group of Twenty Nonfinancial Private Sector Borrowing
- Figure 1.25. G20 Nonfinancial Private Sector Credit and Debt Service Ratios
- Figure 1.26. Chinese Banking System Developments
- Figure 1.27. China: Regulatory Tightening Has Helped Contain Financial Sector Risks
- Figure 1.28. Chinese Banks: Financial Policy Tightening and Credit Growth Capacity
- figure1-29 — Bank Profitability and Liquidity Indicators
- Figure 1.30. Global Financial Dislocation Scenario
- Figure 1.31. Emerging Market Economy External Vulnerabilities and Corporate Leverage
- Figure 1.4. Global Systemically Important Banks: Signficance and Business Model Snapshot
- Figure 1.5. Global Systemically Important Banks: Capital, Liquidity, and Legacy Challenges
- Figure 1.6. Global Systemically Important Banks: Market Activity
- Figure 1.7. Global Systemically Important Banks' International Activity
- Figure 1.8. Global Systemically Important Banks: Financial Performance Gaps
- Figure 1.9. Life Insurance Companies’ Profitability and Capital
- IMF Golbal Financial Stability Report October 2017: Assumptions and Conventions
- Chapter 1: Is Growth At Risk?
- IMF Global financial Stability Report October 2017: Executive Summary
- Foreword
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- Figure 1.20. Long-Term Drivers of the Low-Volatility Regime
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- Figure 1.22. Vulnerability of the US Corporate Credit Investor Base to Shocks
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- Annex Figure 2.1.1. Loan Characteristics, Rules, and Regulations
- Figure 2.1.1. Long-Term per Capita GDP Growth and Household Debt
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- Figure 2.4.2. Consumption Response to House Prices
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- Figure 2.1. Household Debt-to-GDP Ratio in Advanced and Emerging Market Economies
- Figure 2.10. The Impact of Household Debt by Country and Institutional Factors
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- Figure 2.4. Household Debt: Evidence from Cross-Country Panel Data
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- Figure 2.6. Effects of Household Debt on GDP Growth: Robustness Tests
- Figure 2.7. Micro-Level Evidence Corroborating the Macro Impact
- Figure 2.8. Banking Crises and the Role of Household Debt
- Figure 2.9. Bank Equity Returns and Household Debt
- Global Financial Stability Report October 2017 Chapter Two: Household Debt And Financial Stability
- Summary
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- Figure 2.4.1 and Figure 2.4.2
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- Annex 3.1. Financial Vulnerabilities and Growth Hysteresis in Structural Models
- Dataset overview
- Figure 3.1. Tighter Financial Conditions Forecast Greater Downside Tail Risk to Global Growth
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- Figure 3.3. In Emerging Market Economies, Changes in Financial Conditions Also Affect Upside Risks
- Figure 3.4. Higher Price of Risk is a Significant Predictor of Downside Growth Risks within One Year
- Figure 3.5. Rising Leverage Signals Higher Downside Growth Risks at Longer Time Horizons
- Figure 3.6. Waning Global Risk Appetite Signals Imminent Downside Risks to Growth
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- Figure 3.8. In-Sample and Recursive Out of Sample Quantile Forecasts: One-Quarter-Ahead
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- Chapter 3: Financial Conditions and Growth At Risk
- Global Financial Stability Report October 2017 Summary: Financial Conditions And Growth At Risk
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