The Multilateral Aspects of Policies Affecting Capital Flows - Background Paper
Policy Papers, October 24, 2011
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- Published: October 24, 2011
- Series: Policy Papers
Overview
- Publication date: October 24, 2011
- Format noted: Chicago citation provided as "The Multilateral Aspects of Policies Affecting Capital Flows - Background Paper, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 0) accessed 9/19/2026"
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Summary findings
- The case studies document the regulatory and supervisory dimension of episodes during the recent crisis involving capital flows that generated systemic stress.
- Source country regulation and supervision is the main focus, although recipient country policies also were important in some cases and are thus covered as well.
- Three of the case studies are motivated by systemic stress that arose from flows between advanced economies:
- Strong demand by foreign investors for U.S. financial products helped drive gross flows between the United States and other countries, especially Europe.
- This demand induced the U.S. financial sector to develop products that transformed their risky assets into highly-rated securities.
- Large European banks came to depend on short-term liquidity provided from the U.S., creating two-way capital flows that formed a complex web among markets and institutions, some regulated and some not.
- Case studies prepared include:
- European banks and U.S. money market mutual funds (MMMFs)
- German banks and U.S. mortgage-backed securities (MBSs)
- The near failure of the American International Group (AIG), highlighting complex and systemically cross-border linkages with other global institutions and markets
Thematic focus and subject tags
- Background papers
- Bank supervision
- Banking sector
- Capital flows
- Capital inflows
- Cross country analysis
- Emerging markets
- Europe
- Insurance supervision
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The Multilateral Aspects of Policies Affecting Capital Flows - Background Paper, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 0) accessed 9/19/2026 — https://www.imf.org/en/publications/policy-papers/issues/2016/12/31/the-multilateral-aspects-of-policies-affecting-capital-flows-background-paper-pp4614