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BIS Quarterly Review, December 2009

7 December 2009

Full text and statistical tables:

 

Text by chapter:

International banking and financial market developments

1. Overview: continued record low rates spur markets
 

Full text (PDF, 12 pages, 394 kb)
PDFs also available in French, German, Italian, Spanish

2.

Highlights of international banking and financial market activity

 

Full text (PDF, 16 pages, 166 kb)
PDFs also available in French, German, Italian, Spanish

 
includes boxes:
Analysing bank lending data in China (also available in French, German, Italian and Spanish) and
The size of the global CDS market – BIS and DTCC data
(also available in French, German, Italian and Spanish)



 

Special features

    Macro stress tests and crises: what can we learn?
by Rodrigo Alfaro and Mathias Drehmann
 

 Abstract  (also available in French, German, Italian, Spanish)
 Full text (PDF, 14 pages, 122 kb)

 

    Monetary policy and the risk-taking channel
by Leonardo Gambacorta
 

 Abstract (also available in French, German, Italian, Spanish)
 Full text (PDF, 11 pages, 180 kb)

 

  Government size and macroeconomic stability
by M S Mohanty and Fabrizio Zampolli
 

 Abstract  (also available in French, German, Italian, Spanish)
 Full text (PDF, 14 pages, 90 kb)

 

  Issues and developments in loan loss provisioning: the case of Asia
by Sarawan Angklomkliew, Jason George and Frank Packer
 

 Abstract  (also available in French, German, Italian, Spanish)
 Full text (PDF, 15 pages, 113 kb)

 

includes box: Provisioning and financial system procyclicality

 

  Dollar appreciation in 2008: safe haven, carry trades, dollar shortage and overhedging
by Patrick McGuire and Robert McCauley
 

 Abstract  (also available in French, German, Italian, Spanish)
 Full text (PDF, 9 pages, 113 kb)