Global Financial Stability Report, April 2004: Market Developments and Issues

Global Financial Stability Report, April 6, 2004

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• Published: April 6, 2004
• Series: Global Financial Stability Report
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781589063280.082

Overview

• Publication date: April 6, 2004
• The Global Financial Stability Report (GFSR) is published twice a year by the IMF to provide timely analysis of developments in mature and emerging market countries and to identify potential fault lines in the global financial system that could lead to crisis.
• The GFSR aims to deepen readers’ understanding of global capital flows as an engine of world economic growth and serves as a key vehicle for the IMF’s multilateral surveillance alongside the World Economic Outlook.

Purpose and focus

• Provide a more frequent assessment of global financial markets and address emerging market financing in a global context.
• Focus on current conditions in global financial markets, highlighting issues of financial imbalances and structural nature that could pose risks to financial market stability and sustained market access by emerging market borrowers.
• Draw out the financial ramifications of economic imbalances highlighted by the IMF’s World Economic Outlook.
• Regularly contain, as a special feature, articles on structural or systemic issues relevant to international financial stability.
• Emphasis is on relevant contemporary issues rather than being a comprehensive survey of all potential risks.

Content highlights (as described in the source summary)

• Timely analysis of developments in mature and emerging market countries.
• Identification of potential fault lines in the global financial system that could lead to crisis.
• Deepening understanding of global capital flows and their role in world economic growth.
• Coverage of financial imbalances and structural issues that could threaten financial market stability and emerging market access.
• Special feature articles on structural or systemic issues relevant to international financial stability.

Subjects and keywords

• Subject areas: Credit, Emerging and frontier financial markets, Financial institutions, Financial markets, Hedge funds, Insurance companies, Money, Securities markets
• Keywords: Africa, Asia and Pacific, bond market, Credit, Emerging and frontier financial markets, emerging market country, Europe, GFSR, Global, global bond, Hedge funds, institutional investor, Insurance companies, market, market characteristic, market expectation, market overreaction, market participant, Middle East, Securities markets, U.S. dollar, yield

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