Lebanon: Selected Issues

June 9, 2006

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Lebanon: Selected Issues, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2006) accessed September 27, 2024

Summary

The Selected Issues paper of Lebanon provides an update of the vulnerability assessment based on the balance sheet approach. It explores the interest rate determination, the strength of the link to international interest rates, and exposure to international interest rate shocks, summarizes the methodology used to derive confidence intervals around the path of the debt ratio in the staff’s adjustment scenario, and provides an assessment of Lebanon’s competitiveness from a macroeconomic and microeconomic perspective, with a view to identify possible sources of competitiveness gains over the medium term.

Subject: Central banks, Competition, Currencies, Debt sustainability, Deposit rates, Exchange rate risk, External debt, Financial markets, Financial services, International reserves, Money

Keywords: Article IV consultation discussion, Competition, Competitiveness gain, CR, Currencies, Debt sustainability, Debt sustainability assessment, Deposit rates, Europe, Global, Interest rate determination, Interest rate shock, International reserves, ISCR

Publication Details

Pages:

48
Volume:

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Series:

Country Report No. 2006/200
Stock No:

1LBNEA2006001
ISBN:

9781451822687
ISSN:

1934-7685

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