devoted to systematically and comprehensively assess the degree to which WTO Members discriminate against foreign bank. This … available on their current regulatory regime for banking (based on the responses to a World Bank survey as discussed in Barth …

in the banking sectors of various countries. After the 2007-2009 crisis, bank capital requirements have, in some cases … guidelines has contributed to regulatory complexity, even when omitting other bank capital regulations that are specific to the … US, and (3) how the US regulatory measures still do not provide equally valuable information about whether a bank is …

This paper examines how the introduction of deposit insurance influences the relationship between bank capital and …, Russia, provides a natural experiment to investigate this issue. We study three alternative measures of bank liquidity … insurance scheme exerts a limited impact on the relationship between bank capital and liquidity creation and does not change the …

This paper examines how the introduction of deposit insurance influences the relationship between bank capital and … requirements should not be considered separately by bank regulators …

In this paper and the associated online database, we provide new data and measures of bank regulatory and supervisory … questions, including information on permissible bank activities, capital requirements, the powers of official supervisory … performance of banking systems. Since the underlying surveys are large and complex, we construct summary indices of key bank …

2007-2009. The fear is that if a big bank gets into trouble, its problems will infect other financial institutions and … there are huge complexities at almost every level. What is “big?” How big is too big? What is a “bank?” What kinds of risk …-taking are appropriate for a bank – and why? What do we know about the costs and benefits of different strategies? This paper …

In this paper and the associated online database, we provide new data and measures of bank regulatory and supervisory … questions, including information on permissible bank activities, capital requirements, the powers of official supervisory … performance of banking systems. Since the underlying surveys are large and complex, we construct summary indices of key bank …