The 8th Joint Regional Financing Arrangements (RFAs) Research Seminar starts today May 16 in Luxembourg. The two-day hybrid seminar will examine the economic and financial risks associated with global fragmentation. This event is organised jointly by the ASEAN+3 Macroeconomic Research Office (AMRO), the European Stability Mechanism (ESM), and Latin American Reserve Fund (FLAR).

The financial health of oil-producing entities is closely tied to oil prices. Historical data shows that the profits of leading international oil corporations have fluctuated in correlation with global oil price volatility.

The objective of this working paper was to analyze the relationship between oil price volatility and economic growth, taking into account the unique characteristics of the region, including both oil-producing and net oil-importing countries, and comparing it with other regions of the world.

New working paper in academic journal | U.S. Monetary Policy Shocks and Bank Lending in Latin America: Evidence of an International Bank Lending Channel

This study utilizes weekly datasets on loan growth in Colombia to develop a daily indicator of credit expansion using a two-step machine learning approach.

Early warning systems represent a crucial asset for regulatory bodies and financial system overseers. While on-site monitoring stands out as a premier means through which authorities can glean both quantitative and qualitative insights into the fiscal well-being of the entities under scrutiny, the execution of such monitoring at a high frequency can incur substantial costs.

In 2023, the international context was characterized by lower economic growth than in the previous year in an environment of higher global interest rates. Consumer inflation remained above its target despite declines in most of the world’s economies.

The impact of integration on financial stability is a topic that has generated an extensive debate on its advantages and disadvantages. In our most recent study we revisit the debate on the effects of openness on financial stability.

FLARblog | What Happened to Integration and Financial Stability after the Global Financial Crisis? An Answer from Machine Learning

Instant Payments: The Present and Future of Payments in Latin America and the Caribbean

We are pleased to share with you the re-run of the session ‘Monetary Policy in Sudden Stop-Prone Economies’ by FLAR at the LACEA – LAMES 2023 annual meeting.

Press release | Joint IMF-RFAs press release on the 8th High-level RFA Dialogue

New Working Paper | U.S. Monetary Policy Shocks and Bank Lending in Latin America: Evidence of an International Bank Lending Channel

FLARblog | Does the U.S. Monetary Policy Shocks Affect Bank Lending in Latin America?

FLARblog | Latin America: A better than expected second quarter.

New working paper in academic journal | An Explained Extreme Gradient Boosting Approach for Identifying the Time-Varying Determinants of Sovereign Risk