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Title Quantitative assessment of a financial system : Barbados / prepared by Karen Chase [and others]
Published Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, Monetary and Financial Systems Dept., ©2005

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Description 1 online resource (20 pages) : illustrations
Series IMF working paper ; WP/05/76
IMF working paper ; WP/05/76.
Contents Contents -- I. INTRODUCTION -- II. FINANCIAL STRUCTURE AND BANKING PERFORMANCE -- III. FINANCIAL SECTOR FORECASTS AND STRESS TESTS -- IV. CONCLUSIONS -- REFERENCES
Summary A banking system module is incorporated into the Central Bank of Barbados's multisectoral macroeconomic forecasting model, and a medium-term forecast is generated for bank capitalization, profitability, liquidity and nonperforming loans. Stress tests are performed for the first year of the forecast, to test the banking system's resilience to real sector shocks. The analysis, which would in practice be only part of the vulnerability assessment, indicates that the banking system is stable and resilient to macroeconomic shocks of a type and magnitude that Barbados has experienced in the past
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (page 20)
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Subject Banks and banking -- Barbados
Finance -- Barbados
Banks and banking
Finance
Barbados
Form Electronic book
Author Chase, Karen Andrea, author.
International Monetary Fund. Monetary and Financial Systems Department, issuing body.
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