Managing Financial Crises: Recent Experience and Lessons for Latin America
G. Kincaid and
Charles Collyns
No 2003/001, IMF Occasional Papers from International Monetary Fund
Abstract:
This paper seeks to draw lessons from the IMF’s experience in handling financial crises around the globe over the past ten years that are relevant to the challenges faced by countries in Latin America, especially in the wake of the recent crisis in Argentina. Experience suggests that there is no quick or easy fix in the face of a wide-ranging crisis involving both acute external financing pressures and rapidly changing asset prices that undermine financial stability and household and corporate balance sheets. In the end, effective solutions depend on developing a comprehensive strategy combining the full range of fiscal, monetary, financial system, and debt policy instruments. Recent experience with crises has had important implications for the IMF’s work in assessing crisis vulnerabilities. IMF surveillance work has been strengthened and a more objective framework has been developed for assessing debt sustainability, and this approach continues to be refined.
Keywords: OP; country; government; prefix; division chief; Deputy Division chief; deputy director; resident representative; senior Economist; Exchange rates; Fiscal stance; Global; Asia and Pacific; Africa; Europe; Middle East; Caribbean (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 128
Date: 2003-04-10
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