Dealing with ‘insidious' crises a ‘difficult proposition' for policy-makers, argues IMF paper

Conventional balance-sheet crises more effectively detected and contained

IMF headquarters in Washington, DC
The International Monetary Fund

Policy-makers and market participants have become more adept at reading the warning signals on "conventional" balance-sheet crises in emerging market economies (EMEs), but they are much less capable of detecting and avoiding "insidious" crises, according to an IMF working paper published this week.

Conventional and insidious macroeconomic balance-sheet crises, by Bas Bakker and Leslie Lipschitz, describes conventional crises as triggered by external imbalances prompted by capital inflows

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