Thursday, Oct 14, 2021 | 12:00 PM - 12:45 PM
Location: HQ1-BL-517 (AV CORE)
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The COVID-19 crisis is likely to raise the already high levels of nonperforming loans (NPLs) in sub-Saharan Africa. This may limit banks’ ability to support a post-pandemic recovery. In response, we propose a sequential strategy focused on managing, resolving, and preventing NPLs.
Based on Departmental Paper No 2021/014, written by: Luc Eyraud, Irina Bunda, Jehann Jack, Tarak Jardak, Rasmané Ouedraogo, Zhangrui Wang, and Torsten Wezel.
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Jehann Jack African Department, IMF |
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Tarak Jardak European Department, IMF |
Borrowing rates can become unresponsive or even decline as a result of more government borrowing and higher fiscal risks, when government default is very costly. This disconnect between borrowing rates and fiscal risk can be misleading to policy makers.
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Ehsan Ebrahimy Institute of Capacity Development, IMF |
The presentation will describe the machine learning tool used for screening of cross-border financial flows to identify unusual patterns of transactions potentially related to illicit financial flows and will present findings on the direction of flows-outliers on a global level.
Based on work by: Mamoon Saeed, Maksym Ivanyna, Ruben Atoyan, Yang Liu.
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Maksym Markevych Legal Department, IMF |
Since 2012, several central banks introduced negative interest rates to boost economic activity. We review the evidence on the effects of these policies on financial markets, banks, and the macroeconomy.
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Marco Casiraghi Monetary and Capital Markets Department, IMF |
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Gunes Kamber Monetary and Capital Markets Department, IMF |
