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020 |a 9781484375969 
245 0 0 |a Portugal  |b Selected Issues 
260 |a Washington, D.C.  |b International Monetary Fund  |c 2018 
300 |a 93 pages 
651 4 |a Portugal 
653 |a National Government Expenditures and Related Policies: Infrastructures 
653 |a Investment 
653 |a Public investment spending 
653 |a Finance 
653 |a Current account 
653 |a Short-term Capital Movements 
653 |a Public finance & taxation 
653 |a Financial sector policy and analysis 
653 |a Currency; Foreign exchange 
653 |a Bankruptcy 
653 |a Current Account Adjustment 
653 |a Balance of payments 
653 |a Real effective exchange rates 
653 |a Debt 
653 |a Exports and Imports 
653 |a Other Public Investment and Capital Stock 
653 |a Intangible Capital 
653 |a International economics 
653 |a Expenditure 
653 |a Foreign Exchange 
653 |a Solvency 
653 |a Public-private sector cooperation 
653 |a Liquidation 
653 |a Macroeconomics 
653 |a Public investments 
653 |a Capacity 
653 |a Public investment and public-private partnerships (PPP) 
653 |a Capital 
653 |a Public Finance 
653 |a Finance: General 
653 |a Foreign exchange 
653 |a Production and Operations Management 
710 2 |a International Monetary Fund  |b European Dept 
041 0 7 |a eng  |2 ISO 639-2 
989 |b IMF  |a International Monetary Fund 
490 0 |a IMF Staff Country Reports 
028 5 0 |a 10.5089/9781484375969.002 
856 4 0 |u https://elibrary.imf.org/view/journals/002/2018/274/002.2018.issue-274-en.xml?cid=46225-com-dsp-marc  |x Verlag  |3 Volltext 
082 0 |a 330 
520 |a This Selected Issues paper describes financial conditions and growth at risk in Portugal. The macro-finance literature and recent experience provide compelling evidence that financial imbalances grow in good times, creating downside risks to economic growth. The analysis highlights the importance of the price of risk, leverage and credit growth as leading indicators of risks to gross domestic product growth. The price of risk appears to provide the most powerful signal in the short term, while credit aggregates are the most significant predictor in the medium term. This finding is consistent with the volatility paradox and is line with other empirical studies. The Growth-at-Risk (GaR) model suggests contained downside risks to Portugal’s growth projections at the current juncture based on financial conditions data, but credit growth should continue to be monitored given still high leverage. The moderate risk to growth identified by the GaR model reflects the impact of low credit spreads and volatility in the financial markets, in their turn reflecting the prevailing policy mix. Still, a repricing of risks and other shocks could be magnified by the still-high leverage, and lead to less favorable growth outcomes