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Global Financial Stability Report Responding to the Financial Crisis and Measuring Systemic Risks - April 2009
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Preface (457KB pdf file)
 
Joint Foreword to World Economic Outlook and Global Financial Stability Report

Even with determined steps to return the financial sector to health and continued use of macroeconomic policy levers to support aggregate demand, global activity is projected to contract by 1.3 percent in 2009. This represents the deepest post–World War II recession by far. Moreover, the downturn is truly global: output per capita is projected to decline in countries representing three-quarters of the global economy. Growth is projected to reemerge in 2010, but at 1.9 percent it would be sluggish relative to past recoveries.
These projections are based on an assessment that financial market stabilization will take longer than previously envisaged, even with strong efforts by policymakers. Thus, financial conditions in the mature markets are projected to improve only slowly, as insolvency concerns are diminished by greater clarity over losses on bad assets and injections of public capital, and counterparty risks and market volatility are reduced. The April 2009 issue of the Global Financial Stability Report (GFSR) estimates that, subject to a number of assumptions, credit writedowns on U.S.-originated assets by all holders since the start of the crisis will total $2.7 trillion, compared with an estimate of $2.2 trillion in the January 2009 GFSR Update.
Including assets originated in other mature market economies, total write-downs could reach $4 trillion over the next two years, approximately two-thirds of which may be taken by banks. Overall credit to the private sector in the advanced economies is thus expected to decline during both 2009 and 2010. Because of the acute degree of stress in mature markets and its concentration in the banking system, capital flows to emerging economies will remain very low...

 
Executive Summary (752KB pdf file)
Chapter I. Stabilizing the Global Financial System and Mitigating Spillover Risks
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Systemic risks remain high and the adverse feedback loop between the financial system and the real economy has yet to be arrested, despite the wide range of policy actions and some limited improvement in market functioning. Further effective government action—particularly geared toward cleansing balance sheets and strengthening institutions—will be required to stabilize the global financial system and to provide the foundation for a sustainable economic recovery. The banking system needs additional equity to absorb further writedowns as credit deteriorates, and risks are broadening to encompass nonbank institutions. The crisis has spread to emerging markets, with the collapse of international financing, posing challenges to corporates, households, and banks as well as raising sovereign risk. The global policy response, including the IMF’s enhanced lending framework, should help to mitigate crisis risks from deepening. There remains considerable scope for further public commitments in larger economies, but extensive provision of financing and the transfer of balance sheet risk from the private to the public sector have increased tail risks for certain mature market sovereigns.

  A. Global Financial Stability Map
  B. Global Deleveraging and its Consequences
  C. The Crisis has Engulfed Emerging Markets
  D. The Deteriorating Outlook for Household and Corporate Defaults in Mature Markets and Implications for the Financial System
  E. Stability Risks and the Effectiveness of the Policy Response
  F. Costs of Official Support, Potential Spillovers, and Policy Risks
  Annex 1.1. Global Financial Stability Map: Construction and Methodology
  Annex 1.2. Predicting Private "Other Investment" Flows and Credit Growth in Emerging Markets
  Annex 1.3. Spillovers Between Foreign Banks and Emerging Market Sovereigns
  Annex 1.4. Debt Restructuring in Systemic Crises
  Annex 1.5. Methodology for Estimating Financial Writedowns
  References
 
Chapter II. Assessing the Systemic Implications of Financial Linkages
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The rise in the complexity and globalization of financial services has contributed to stronger interconnections or linkages. While more extensive linkages contribute to economic growth by smoothing credit allocation and allowing greater risk diversification, they also increase the potential for disruptions to spread swiftly across markets and borders. In addition, financial complexity has enabled risk transfers that were not fully recognized by financial regulators or by institutions themselves, complicating the assessment of counterparty risk, risk management, and policy responses. Thus the importance of assessing the systemic implications of financial linkages.
The current crisis has highlighted how systemic linkages can arise not just from financial institutions’ solvency concerns but also from liquidity squeezes and other stress events. This chapter illustrates the type of methodologies that can provide some prospective metrics to facilitate discussions on systemic linkages and, specifically, the “too-connected-to-fail” problem, thereby contributing to enhanced systemically focused surveillance and regulation. By contrast, Chapter 3 presents other methodologies that examine systemic risk by looking at the conditions under which financial institutions experience simultaneous stressful events.

  Four Methods of Assessing Systemic Linkages
  How Regulators Assess Systemic Linkages
  Policy Reflections
  Annex 2.1. Default Intensity Model Estimation
  References
 
Chapter III. Detecting Systemic Risk
Full Text   |    Boxes   |   Figures   |   Press Points

The current crisis demonstrates the need for tools to detect systemic risks. Given that there are many facets and causes of such risks, this chapter presents a range of measures that can be used to discern when events become systemic. The chapter first reviews the standard financial soundness indicators’ ability to highlight those financial institutions (FIs) that proved to be vulnerable in the current crisis. For the sample of global FIs examined, leverage ratios and return-on-assets proved the most reliable indicators, while capital asset ratios and nonperforming loan data lacked predictive power.
The chapter then proceeds to examine several techniques to analyze forward-looking market data for groups of FIs in order to detect whether and when systemic risks became apparent. Market-based measures that are able to capture tail risks seem to have given forward indications of impending stress for the overall financial system. Chapter 2 provides a slightly different approach to systemic risk by examining interlinkages, both direct and indirect, between selected FIs.

  What Constitutes "Systemic" Risk?
  "Fundamental" Characteristics of Intervened and Nonintervened Financial Institutions
  Market Perceptions of Risk of Financial Institutions
  Identifying Systemic Risks Through Regime Shifts
  Role of Global Market Conditions During Episodes of Stress
  Policy Implications
  Conclusions
  Annex 3.1. Financial Soundness Indicators
  Annex 3.2. Groups of Selected Financial Institutions
  Annex 3.3. List of Intervened Financial Institutions
  References
 
Glossary (644KB pdf file)
 
Annex: Summing Up by the Acting Chair
 
Statistical Appendix(1259KB pdf file)
Key Financial Centers:      Figures    |   Tables
Emerging Markets:           Figures    |   Tables
Financial Soundness Indicators:           Tables
 
Boxes
    1.1 Near-Term Financial Stability Challenges and Policy Priorities
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1.2 Cross-Border Exposures and Financial Interlinkages within Europe
  1.3 Effects of the Global Financial Crisis on Trade Finance: The Case of Sub-Saharan Africa
Data
Data
1.4 Enhanced IMF Lending Capabilities and Implications for Emerging Markets
   Data 1.5 Modeling Corporate Bond Spreads: A Capital Flows Framework
Data 1.6 Recent Unconventional Measures of Selected Major Central Banks
1.7 Forecasts for Charge-Offs on U.S. Bank Loans
    2.1 Network Simulations of Credit and Liquidity Shocks
2.2 Quantile Analysis
2.3 Default Intensity Model Specification
2.4 Basics of Over-the-Counter Counterparty Credit Risk Mitigation
2.5 A Central Counterparty as a Mitigant to Counterparty Risk in the Credit Default Swap Markets
Chart Data 3.1 Modeling Risk-Adjusted Balance Sheets: The Contingent Claims Approach
Chart
Chart
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3.2 Option-iPoD Measures of Risk Across Financial Institutions
    3.3 Higher Moments and Multivariate Dependence of Implied Volatilities from Equity Options as Measures of Systemic Risk
    3.4 The Consistent Information Multivariate Density Optimizing Approach
Chart Data 3.5 Spillovers to Emerging Markets: A Multivariate GARCH Analysis
Chart
Chart
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3.6 The Transformation of Bank Risk into Sovereign Risk—The Tale of Credit Default Swaps
 
Tables
Chart Data 1.1 Macro and Financial Indicators in Selected Emerging Market Countries
Chart Data 1.2 Potential Writedowns and Capital Needs for Emerging Market Banks by Region
Chart Data 1.3 Estimates of Financial Sector Potential Writedowns (2007-10) by Geographic Origin of Assets as of April 2009
Chart Data 1.4 Bank Equity Requirement Analysis
Chart 1.5 Policy Measures and Effectiveness
Chart   1.6 Tentative Easing in Credit Conditions
Chart Data 1.7 Bank Wholesale Financing and Public Funding Support
Chart Data 1.8 Public Debt and Stabilization Costs
Chart Data 1.9 Mature Market Sovereign Credit Default Swap Spreads and Debt Outstanding
Chart Data 1.10 Announced Sovereign Guaranteed Bank Debt
Chart 1.11 Changes in Risks and Conditions Since the October 2008 Global Financial Stability Report
Chart Data 1.12 Distress Dependence Matrices: Sovereigns and Banks
Chart Data 1.13 Estimated Bank Portfolio Composition by Type of Asset
Chart Data 1.14 Estimated Bank Portfolio Composition by Origin of Assets
Chart Data 1.15 Estimated Distribution of Bank Writedowns by Bank Domicile and Cumulative Loss Rates
    2.1 Taxonomy of Financial Linkages Models
    2.2 Simulation 1 Results (Credit Channel)
    2.3 Post-Simulation 1 Capital Losses
    2.4 Simulation 2 Results (Credit and Funding Channel)
    2.5 Post-Simulation 2 Capital Losses
    2.6 Conditional Co-Risk Estimates, March 2008
    2.7 Conditional Co-Risk Estimates, September 2008
    2.8 Distress Dependence Matrix
    2.9 Summary of Various Methodologies: Limitations and Policy Implications
    3.1 Selected Indicators on Fundamental Characteristics in Financial Institutions
    3.2 Taxonomy of Credit Risk Models
    3.3 Correlations Among 45 Financial Institutions During Different Stress Periods
    3.4 Cluster Analysis
    3.5 Summary of Various Methodologies: Limitations and Policy Implications
 
Figures
Data 1.1 Global Financial Stability Map
Data 1.2 Heat Map: Developments in Systemic Asset Classes
Data 1.3 Ratio of Debt to GDP Among Selected Advanced Economies
Data 1.4 Bank Credit to the Private Sector
Data 1.5 Private Sector Credit Growth
Data 1.6 Bank for International Settlements Reporting Banks: Cross-Border Liabilities, Exchange-Rate-Adjusted Changes
Data 1.7 Bank for International Settlements Reporting Countries: Cross-Border Assets as a Proportion of Total Assets
Data 1.8 Aggregate Emerging Markets Bond Index Global Spread
Data 1.9 Net Foreign Equity Investment in Emerging Economies
Data 1.10 Emerging Market Hedge Funds: Estimated Assets and Net Asset Flows
Data 1.11 Heat Map: Developments in Emerging Market Systemic Asset Classes
Data 1.12 Emerging Europe: Real Credit Growth to the Private Sector and Output
Data 1.13 Emerging Market Performance of Credit Default Swap Spreads and Equity Prices
Data 1.14 Cross-Currency Basis Swap Spreads
Data 1.15 Emerging Market Real Credit Growth
Data 1.16 External Debt Refinancing Needs
Data 1.17 Emerging Market Corporate Bond Spreads
Data 1.18 Aggregate Emerging Market Bond Index Global Spread
Data 1.19 Distress Dependence between Emerging Market Sovereigns and Advanced Country Banks
Data 1.20 U.S. Loan Charge-Off Rates: Baseline
Data 1.21 Delinquency Rate of U.S. Residential Mortgage Loans
Data 1.22 Spreads on Commercial Mortgage-Backed Securities
Data 1.23 Spreads on Consumer Credit Asset-Backed Securities
Data 1.24 Global Corporate Default Rates
Data 1.25 Average Recovery Rates on Defaulted U.S. Bonds
Data 1.26 Corporate Credit Default Swap Spreads
Data 1.27 Estimates of Economic Growth and Financial Sector Writedowns
Data 1.28 U.S. and European Bank and Insurance Company Market Capitalization, Writedowns, and Capital Infusions
Data 1.29 U.S. and European (including U.K.) Bank Earnings and Writedowns
Data 1.30 Commercial Bank Loan Charge-Offs
Data 1.31 European Securitization Gross Issuance
Data 1.32 Refinancing Gap of Global Banks
Data 1.33 Pension Funds of Large U.S. and European Companies: Estimated Funding Levels
Data 1.34 Insurance Sector Credit Default Swaps Spreads
Data 1.35 Large Economy Credit Default Swap Spreads
Data 1.36 Benchmark Five-Year Government Bonds
Data 1.37 Swap Spreads of Government-Guaranteed Bonds
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1.38 Global Financial Stability Map: Monetary and Financial Conditions
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1.39 Global Financial Stability Map: Risk Appetite
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1.40 Global Financial Stability Map: Macroeconomic Risks
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1.41 Global Financial Stability Map: Emerging Market Risks
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1.42 Global Financial Stability Map: Credit Risks
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1.43 Global Financial Stability Map: Market and Liquidity Risks
Data 1.44 Impulse Responses
Data 1.45 Net Private Other Investment Flows to Emerging Markets
Data 1.46 Emerging Market Real Credit Growth
Data 1.47 Emerging Market GDP Growth
Data 1.48 Default Probabilities Implied by Credit Default Swap Pricing
Data 1.49 Distress Dependence
2.1 Network Analysis: A Diagrammatic Representation of Systemic Interbank Exposures
Chart Data 2.2 Network Analysis: Number of Induced Failures
Chart Data 2.3 Network Analysis: Country-by-Country Vulnerability Level
2.4 Network Analysis: Contagion Path Triggered by the U.K. Failure
Chart Data 2.5 AIG and Lehman Brothers Default Risk Codependence
2.6 A Diagrammatic Depiction of Co-Risk Feedbacks
2.7 U.S. and European Banks: Tail-Risk Dependence Devised from Equity Option Implied Volatility, 2006-08
2.8 Legend of Trivariate Dependence Simplex
2.9 Annual Number of Corporate and Banking Defaults
2.10 Actual and Fitted Economy Default Rates
2.11 Default Rate Probability and Number of Defaults
2.12 Quarterly One-Year-Ahead Forecast Value-at-Risk at 95 Percent Level
2.13 Capital Adequacy Ratios (CAR) After Hypothetical Credit Shocks
2.14 Basic Structure of the Systemic Risk Monitor Model
2.15 RAMSI Framework
Chart Data 3.1 Capital-to-Assets Ratio
Chart Data 3.2 Ratio of Short-Term Debt to Total Debt
Chart Data 3.3 Return on Assets
3.4 Dendrogram
Chart Data 3.5 U.S. and European Banks: Joint Tail Risk of Implied Volatilities
Chart Data 3.6 Higher Moments and Multivariate Dependence of Implied Equity Volatility
Chart Data 3.7 Joint Probability of Distress (JPoD) and Banking Stability Index (BSI): Core 2 Group
Chart Data 3.8 Joint Probability of Distress (JPoD) and Banking Stability Index (BSI): By Geographic Region
Chart Data 3.9 Daily Percentage Change: Joint and Average Probability of Distress, Core 2 Group
Chart Data 3.10 Probability of Cascade Effects
Chart Data 3.11 Markov-Regime Switching ARCH Model: Joint Probability of Distress and Banking Stability Index
Chart Data 3.12 Euro-Dollar Forex Swap
Chart Data 3.13 Markov-Switching ARCH Model of VIX
Chart Data 3.14 Markov-Switching ARCH Model of TED Spread
Chart Data 3.15 Markov-Switching ARCH Model of VIX, TED Spread, and Core 2 Banking Stability Index
 
Statistical Appendix
    Key Financial Centers
  Figures
Chart Data 1. Major Net Exporters and Importers of Capital in 2008
Chart Data 2. Exchange Rates: Selected Major Industrial Countries
Chart Data 3. United States: Yields on Corporate and Treasury Bonds
Chart Data 4. Selected Spreads
Chart Data 5. Nonfinancial Corporate Credit Spreads
Chart Data 6. Equity Markets: Price Indexes
Chart Data 7. Implied and Historical Volatility in Equity Markets
Chart Data 8. Historical Volatility of Government Bond Yields and Bond Returns for Selected Countries
Chart Data 9. Twelve-Month Forward Price/Earnings Ratios
Chart Data 10. Flows into U.S.-Based Equity Funds
Chart Data 11. United States: Corporate Bond Market
Chart Data 12. Europe: Corporate Bond Market
Chart Data 13. United States: Commercial Paper Market
Chart Data 14. United States: Asset-Backed Securities
 
  Tables
Data 1. Global Capital Flows: Inflows and Outflows
Data 2. Global Capital Flows: Amounts Outstanding and Net Issues of International Debt Securities by Currency of Issue and Signed International Syndicated Credit Facilities by Nationality of Borrower
Data 3. Selected Indicators on the Size of the Capital Markets, 2007
Data 4. Global Over-the-Counter Derivatives Markets: Notional Amounts and Gross Market Values of Outstanding Contracts
Data 5. Global Over-the-Counter Derivatives Markets: Notional Amounts and Gross Market Values of Outstanding Contracts by Counterparty, Remaining Maturity, and Currency
Data 6. Exchange-Traded Derivative Financial Instruments: Notional Principal Amounts Outstanding and Annual Turnover
Data 7. United States: Sectoral Balance Sheets
Data 8. Japan: Sectoral Balance Sheets
Data 9. Europe: Sectoral Balance Sheets
 
    Emerging Markets
  Figures
Chart Data 15. Emerging Market Volatility Measures
Chart Data 16. Emerging Market Debt Cross-Correlation Measures
 
  Tables
  Data 10. Equity Market Indices
  Data 11. Foreign Exchange Rates
  Data 12. Emerging Market Bond Index: EMBI Global Total Returns Index
  Data 13. Emerging Market Bond Index: EMBI Global Yield Spreads
  Data 14. Emerging Market External Financing: Total Bonds, Equities, and Loans
  Data 15. Emerging Market External Financing: Bond Issuance
  Data 16. Emerging Market External Financing: Equity Issuance
  Data 17. Emerging Market External Financing: Loan Syndication
  Data 18. Equity Valuation Measures: Dividend-Yield Ratios
  Data 19. Equity Valuation Measures: Price-to-Book Ratios
  Data 20. Equity Valuation Measures: Price/Earnings Ratios
  Data 21. United States: Mutual Fund Flows
 
   Financial Soundness Indicators
  Tables
  Data 22. Bank Regulatory Capital to Risk-Weighted Assets
  Data 23. Bank Capital to Assets
  Data 24. Bank Nonperforming Loans to Total Loans
  Data 25. Bank Provisions to Nonperforming Loans
  Data 26. Bank Return on Assets
  Data 27. Bank Return on Equity
 
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