G20 Leaders Summit: Financial Regulation Session
Remarks by Angel Gurría, OECD Secretary-General Cannes, 4th November 2011 (As prepared for delivery) Thank you Mr. President. Yesterday, we discussed the current economic situation. Countries are going through challenging times and are facing very different policy requirements. However, none of them can afford to disregard additional fiscal revenues. This […]
G20 finance ministers agree new principles to boost financial consumer protection
18/10/2011 – G20 finance ministers meeting in Paris have agreed new principles on financial consumer protection developed by the OECD. The principles form part of a broader initiative by G20 leaders to strengthen trust and confidence in the financial sector, which is widely recognised to have fallen since the economic crisis.[…]
Business Models of Banks, Leverage and the Distance-to-Default
This study models the distance-to-default (DTD) of a large sample of banks from 2004 to 2011 and examines the results from the perspective of policy approaches that aim to reduce the riskiness of banks.
Latin American Economic Outlook 2013
The Latin American Economic Outlook is a long-standing flagship of the OECD Development Centre, co-published with the UN Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC). The official launch of the Latin American Economic Outlook 2013 will take place on Friday 16 November 2012 (09:00-09:45) in Cádiz, Spain, in[…]