Assessing the FSAP: Quality, Relevance, and Value Added

Gerard Caprio

No 2019-12, Department of Economics Working Papers from Department of Economics, Williams College

Abstract: This paper examines the technical quality, relevance and usefulness of the Financial Sector Assessment Program (FSAP). The FSAP has become an increasingly sophisticated tool for evaluating the stability of financial systems and, for low- and middle-income countries (with the World Bank), a tool to assess their financial development needs. It is regarded by country authorities as a high quality and rigorous exercise, although the quality does vary. Given that the regulatory pendulum fluctuates between more and less rigorous enforcement, the FSAP can serve to keep national authorities "on their toes," to disseminate cutting-edge techniques for assessing and modelling risk, and to examine cross-border threats to financial stability.

Keywords: Financial development; banking regulation; economic development (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 45 pages
Date: 2019-09
Note: Also issued as IMF IEO Background paper BP/18-02/02
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