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Are All the Sacred Cows Dead? Implications of the Financial Crisis for Macro and Financial Policies

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  • Demirguc-Kunt, Asli

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  • Serven, Luis

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    The recent global financial crisis has shaken the confidence of developed and developing countries alike in the very blueprint of financial and macro policies that underlie the western capitalist systems. In an effort to contain the crisis from spreading, the authorities in the US and many European governments have taken unprecedented steps of providing extensive liquidity, giving assurances to bank depositors and creditors that include blanket guarantees, and structuring bail-out programs that include taking large ownership stakes in financial institutions, in addition to establishing programs for direct provision of credit to non-financial institutions. Emphasizing the importance of incentives and tensions between short term and longer term policy responses to crisis management, this paper draws on a large body of research evidence and country experiences to discuss the implications of the current crisis for financial and macroeconomic policies going forward.

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    Paper provided by The World Bank in its series Policy Research Working Paper Series with number 4807.

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    Length: 54 pages
    Date of creation: 01 Feb 2009
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    Handle: RePEc:wbk:wbrwps:4807

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    Keywords: Financial crisis; Regulation and Supervision; Safety Nets; Role of State in Finance; Monetary Policy; Asset Bubbles; Capital Controls;

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