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Schrodinger’s Banks: The Immediate Need for Policies to Ensure Financial Stability
This article was compiled by Professor Udara Peiris. Udara Peiris joined Oberlin in the fall of 2022. He was previously a tenured Associate Professor of Finance at HSE University (at the department ICEF) in Russia and has taught at the University of Warwick, and the University of Oxford (both in the UK). He was a research advisor to the Central Bank of Russia, consulted the Government of Sri Lanka, and presented his research at institutions including the IMF, Federal Reserve System, Bank of England, and Reserve Bank of Australia. His research has a strong policy focus and covers the nexus between the macroeconomy and the financial markets.
Featured Insight
Schrodinger’s Banks: The Immediate Need for Policies to Ensure Financial Stability
This article was compiled by Professor Udara Peiris. Udara Peiris joined Oberlin in the fall of 2022. He was previously a tenured Associate Professor of Finance at HSE University (at the department ICEF) in Russia and has taught at the University of Warwick, and the University of Oxford (both in the UK). He was a research advisor to the Central Bank of Russia, consulted the Government of Sri Lanka, and presented his research at institutions including the IMF, Federal Reserve System, Bank of England, and Reserve Bank of Australia. His research has a strong policy focus and covers the nexus between the macroeconomy and the financial markets.
Featured Insight
Schrodinger’s Banks: The Immediate Need for Policies to Ensure Financial Stability
This article was compiled by Professor Udara Peiris. Udara Peiris joined Oberlin in the fall of 2022. He was previously a tenured Associate Professor of Finance at HSE University (at the department ICEF) in Russia and has taught at the University of Warwick, and the University of Oxford (both in the UK). He was a research advisor to the Central Bank of Russia, consulted the Government of Sri Lanka, and presented his research at institutions including the IMF, Federal Reserve System, Bank of England, and Reserve Bank of Australia. His research has a strong policy focus and covers the nexus between the macroeconomy and the financial markets.
Featured Insight
Schrodinger’s Banks: The Immediate Need for Policies to Ensure Financial Stability
This article was compiled by Professor Udara Peiris. Udara Peiris joined Oberlin in the fall of 2022. He was previously a tenured Associate Professor of Finance at HSE University (at the department ICEF) in Russia and has taught at the University of Warwick, and the University of Oxford (both in the UK). He was a research advisor to the Central Bank of Russia, consulted the Government of Sri Lanka, and presented his research at institutions including the IMF, Federal Reserve System, Bank of England, and Reserve Bank of Australia. His research has a strong policy focus and covers the nexus between the macroeconomy and the financial markets.
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Sri Lanka’s Fitch Credit Rating has been downgraded 7 times during the last 7-years (May 2015 – May 2022)
Sri Lanka’s credit rating has been downgraded 7 times over the course of 7 years. 5 of those downgrades occurred since April 2020. In contrast, its regional peers have maintained their credit ratings. ...
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Daily Mirror
SL secures a long-term Credit Line from Russia to...
The Embassy of Sri Lanka in Moscow has secured a long-term Credit Line from the Government of the Russian Federation in order to procure fuel to Sri Lanka, the embassy said.
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Ceylon Today
IMF agreement signals sharp change in policy setti...
The IMF staff-level agreement with Sri Lanka on a USD 2.9 billion programme, confirmed on 1 September, appears to signal a sharp change in policy settings in order to achieve macroeconomic stability, including through large fiscal adjustment...
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Island
World Bank rules out bridging finance to Sri Lanka...
The World Bank has ruled out bridging finance or new loan commitments to crisis-hit Sri Lanka until the nation’s economy sets up an adequate macroeconomic policy framework. However, the WB has said that it is reshuffling the already al...
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Insight on Financing
Quantifying grants received by Sri Lanka...
Since independence, Sri Lanka has been th...
Complying with the Right to Information...
Large infrastructure projects of the gove...
WHT and PAYE had the largest growth in Q...
The Fiscal Management Report 2024, recent...
Is Maldives going down Sri Lanka's path?...
Since 1983, Sri Lanka has faced the conti...
How did Sri Lanka Finance Government Exp...
Total government expenditure for the year...
Reallocation of Funds Can Help Finance a...
The infographic depicts the cost of an el...
Sri Lanka Experiences Its Highest Rate O...
The infographic...
Sri Lanka’s Fitch Credit Rating has been...
Sri Lanka’s...
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National Budget Process in 60 Seconds!
The video below describes the National Budget process from planning to oversight. There are 4 steps to the whole process and is carried out between January and December.
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Debt Digest - March 2023
This article was compiled by Dr. Nishan de Mel and Professor Udara Peiris. Dr. Nishan de Mel is the Executive Director of Verité Research and an eco...
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Tax concessions account for half of the budget def...
All sorts of tax concessions (reported as “tax expenditure”)costs the government almost a trillion rupees a year in potential revenue. In the financial year 2023/24 the tax expenditure statement published by the gove...
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