## Toward a Framework for Financial Stability

_World Economic and Financial Surveys, January 23, 1998_

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**Canonical URL:** [Toward a Framework for Financial Stability](https://www.imf.org/en/publications/world-economic-and-financial-surveys/issues/2016/12/30/toward-a-framework-for-financial-stability-2475)

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## Bibliographic details
- Authors: Carl-Johan Lindgren, D. F. I. Folkerts-Landau
- Published: January 23, 1998
- Series: World Economic and Financial Surveys
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781557757067.083

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### Summary
- This study "outlines the broad principles and characteristics of stable and sound financial systems."
- Purpose: "to facilitate IMF sruveillance over banking sector issues of macroeconomic significance and to contribute the general international effort to reduce the likelihood and diminish the intensity of future financial sector crises."

### Authors and Publication
- Authors: Carl-Johan Lindgren, D. F. I. Folkerts-Landau
- Date: January 23, 1998
- Series: World Economic and Financial Surveys No. 1997/014
- Issue: 014
- Volume: 1997
- Pages: 90

### Identifiers
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781557757067.083
- ISBN: 9781557757067
- ISSN: 0258-7440
- Stock No: WEOEA0161997

### Subject Areas and Keywords
- Subject: Bank supervision; Banking; Capital adequacy requirements; Commercial banks; Deposit insurance; Financial crises; Financial institutions; Financial regulation and supervision; Lender of last resort; Loans; Personal income
- Keywords: asset; authority; bank; bank assets; bank management; Bank supervision; bank supervisor; Caribbean; Commercial banks; country; Deposit insurance; fund surveillance; Global; Lender of last resort; Loans; sound banking system; supervision; supervisory authority; WEFS

### Principal Aims and Intended Uses
- Facilitate IMF surveillance over banking sector issues of macroeconomic significance.
- Contribute to the international effort to reduce the likelihood of future financial sector crises.
- Contribute to diminishing the intensity of future financial sector crises.

*Source: Toward a Framework for Financial Stability — https://www.imf.org/en/publications/world-economic-and-financial-surveys/issues/2016/12/30/toward-a-framework-for-financial-stability-2475*

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_Source: https://www.imf.org/en/publications/world-economic-and-financial-surveys/issues/2016/12/30/toward-a-framework-for-financial-stability-2475_