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Record Nr.

UNINA9910788518203321

Autore

Kim Se-Jik

Titolo

Timing of International Bailouts / / Se-Jik Kim

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C. : , : International Monetary Fund, , 2004

ISBN

1-4623-8945-7

1-4527-5636-8

1-281-09286-X

1-4518-9080-X

9786613775917

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (42 p.)

Collana

IMF Working Papers

Soggetti

Economic assistance

Financial crises

Moral hazard

Finance: General

Financial Risk Management

Production and Operations Management

International Monetary Arrangements and Institutions

International Lending and Debt Problems

Financial Institutions and Services: Government Policy and Regulation

General Financial Markets: Government Policy and Regulation

Financial Crises

Macroeconomics: Production

Economic & financial crises & disasters

Finance

Macroeconomics

Crisis prevention

Productivity

Lender of last resort

Financial sector policy and analysis

Production

Crisis management

Financial risk management

Industrial productivity

Banks and banking, Central

Argentina



Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Cover title.

"January 2004"--Caption.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 39-41).

Nota di contenuto

""Contents""; ""I. INTRODUCTION""; ""II. PROPOSAL FOR A NEW CRISIS-PREVENTION FACILITY""; ""III. THE BASIC MODEL""; ""IV. LAISSEZ-FAIRE""; ""V. EXISTING CRISIS-LENDING FACILITIES""; ""VI. TIMING-BASED CRISIS-LENDING FACILITY""; ""VII. EXTENSIONS AND DISCUSSIONS""; ""VIII. CONCLUSION""; ""APPENDIX I""; ""APPENDIX II""; ""REFERENCES""

Sommario/riassunto

This paper proposes that international rescue financing should not be provided to a country where a crisis first occurs, but rather to any country that suffers a subsequent crisis. Such a timing-based lending facility can be Pareto-superior to both laissez-faire and existing international crisis lending facilities, when domestic governments have more information on their own economies than does the international lender of last resort. The new facility mitigates moral hazard owing to information asymmetry by not rescuing the first-hit country. At the same time, it limits crisis contagion by rescuing countries in subsequent crises. Even in the presence of common shocks, the timing-based facility can reduce global risks of crisis because it induces countries to undertake greater crisis-prevention efforts so as not to become the first country hit.