01737cas a2200241 a 4500 AALejournalIMF015534 230101c9999 xx r poo 0 0eng d 5.00 USD 9781513507736 1018-5941 BD-DhAAL BD-DhAAL Irwin, Timothy. Getting the Dog to Bark : Disclosing Fiscal Risks from the Financial Sector / Timothy Irwin. Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2015. 1 online resource (24 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 Fiscal reporting is intended to warn of fiscal crises while there is still time to prevent them. The recent crisis thus seems to reveal a failure of fiscal reporting: before the crisis, even reports on fiscal risk typically did not mention banks as a possible source of fiscal problems. One reason for silence was that the risk arose partly from implicit guarantees, and governments may have feared that disclosure would increase moral hazard. The crisis cast doubt, however, on the effectiveness of silence in mitigating risks. This paper discusses how fiscal risks from the financial sector could be discussed in reports on fiscal risk, with a view to encouraging their mitigation. Mode of access: Internet IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2015/208 Full text available on IMF http://elibrary.imf.org/view/journals/001/2015/208/001.2015.issue-208-en.xml IMF e-Library