01966cas a2200241 a 4500 AALejournalIMF012102 230101c9999 xx r poo 0 0eng d 5.00 USD 9781475505559 1018-5941 BD-DhAAL BD-DhAAL Mwase, Nkunde. How much should I hold? : Reserve Adequacy in Emerging Markets and Small Islands / Nkunde Mwase. Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2012. 1 online resource (44 pages) IMF Working Papers <strong>Off-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required <strong>On-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required Electronic access restricted to authorized BRAC University faculty, staff and students This paper investigates the drivers of reserves in emerging markets (EMs) and small island (SIs) and develops an operational metric for estimating reserves in SIs taking into account their unique characteristics. It uses quantile regression techniques to allow the estimated factors driving reserves holdings to vary along the reserves' holding distribution and tests for equality among the slope coefficients of the various quantile regressions and the overall models. F-tests comparing the inter-quantile differences could not reject the that the models for the different quantiles of SIs reserve distribution were similar but this was rejected for EMs distribution suggesting that models explaining drivers of reserve holdings should take into account the country's reserve holdings. Empirical analysis suggests that the metric performs better than existing metrics in reducing crisis probabilities in SIs. Mode of access: Internet IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2012/205 Full text available on IMF http://elibrary.imf.org/view/journals/001/2012/205/001.2012.issue-205-en.xml IMF e-Library