Scheubel, Beatrice, Stracca, Livio, (2016), “What we really know about the global financial safety net”, VoxEu, 4 Οctober
The global financial safety net is one of the key infrastructures of financial globalization. However, its current constellation does not reflect a coherent design, but rather the interaction of different instruments used for different purposes and developed over time. This column presents the first database that brings together all of the relevant data for assessing the global financial safety net, including foreign exchange reserves, IMF instruments, regional financing arrangements, and central bank swap lines. An analysis shows that the availability of the net helps to cushion the effects of capital flow reversals.
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- Truman, E.W., (2013), “Enhancing the global financial safety net through central-bank cooperation” VoxEu, 10 September
- Malliaropulos, Dimitris, Migiakis, Petros M., (2016), “The re-pricing of sovereign risks following the Global Financial Crisis”, Bank of Greece, July