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Financial Stability and the International Monetary Fund

In: International Business and Political Economy

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  • Dipak Basu

    (Nagasaki University)

  • Victoria Miroshnik

    (Tsukuba University)

Abstract

The IMF has proposed two new global levies on banks to be considered. The first, the ‘financial stability contribution,’ is a flat levy to be paid by all banks to generate a self-insurance fund equivalent to 4–5 percent of each country’s GDP, totaling about $1–2 trillion. The second levy, called the ‘financial activities tax,’ or FAT, is on the profits and remuneration of banks, and this money can be paid into general revenue, meaning that it is not geared for insurance but to deter risk-taking behavior. The IMF also recommends that resolution regimes, or ‘living wills,’ be mandated alongside this scheme to try to address some of this moral hazard so that taxpayers will not be forced to bail out banks if they can fail without causing systemic collapse ( www.imf.org /external/pubs/ft/gfsr/2014/01/pdf/c3.pdf).

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  • Dipak Basu & Victoria Miroshnik, 2015. "Financial Stability and the International Monetary Fund," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: International Business and Political Economy, chapter 8, pages 94-98, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-137-47486-5_9
    DOI: 10.1057/9781137474865_9
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