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Despite the rising volume of remittances flowing to developing countries, their impact on banking sector breadth and … fraction of households that receive remittances and on measures of banking breadth and depth for Mexico. They find that … remittances are strongly associated with greater banking breadth and depth, increasing the number of branches and accounts per …
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regulatory environment and the structure of the banking environment; but it fails to find strong support for these alternative …
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Deteriorating public finances around the world raise doubts about countries' abilities to bail out their largest banks. For an international sample of banks, this paper investigates the impact of government indebtedness and deficits on bank stock prices and credit default swap spreads. Overall,...
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This paper discusses Islamic banking products and interprets them in the context of financial intermediation theory …
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Using a multi-country panel of banks, the authors study whether better capitalized banks fared better in terms of stock returns during the financial crisis. They differentiate among various types of capital ratios: the Basel risk-adjusted ratio; the leverage ratio; the Tier I and Tier II ratios;...
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This paper proposes a framework to analyze competition in the banking sector using Jordan as an example. In particular … Index. This approach provides a more comprehensive framework to examine competition in the banking sector, compared with the …
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This paper examines the evolving importance of banks and securities markets during the process of economic development. As economies develop, they increase their demand for the services provided by securities markets relative to those provided by banks, such that securities markets become...
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