In this document, the main characteristics of the mortgage markets regulation in developed countries will be analyzed, trying to extract implications in terms of the resilience of the different systems during this crisis. The note is organized in four sections, covering the most relevant issues...

New ways of understanding banking, technological improvements, and regulation yield new means of interaction between customers and banks through outsourcing agreements. This paper provides the first harmonised database with information on the number of banking correspondents by country, which...

Nuevas formas de entender la banca, los avances tecnologicos y la regulacion dan lugar a nuevos medios de interaccion entre los clientes y los bancos a traves de contratos de externalizacion. Este documento ofrece la primera base de datos armonizada con el numero de corresponsales bancarios por...

We find empirical evidence that the Chinese banking system has benefited from the entry of foreign investors through higher profitability and increased efficiency of the banking system. Foreign partcipation, which consists of a minority stake in a Chinese bank (in contrast to the typical pattern...

Banking union is the most ambitious European project undertaken since the introduction of the single currency. It was launched in the summer of 2012, in order to send the markets a strong signal of unity against a looming financial fragmentation problem that was putting the euro on the ropes....

This paper analyzes empirically what explains the low profitability of Chinese banks for the period 1997-2004. We find that better capitalized banks tend to be more profitable. The same is true for banks with a relatively larger share of deposits and for more X-efficient banks. In addition, a...

This paper analyzes the determinants and implications for financial stability of the mix of international banks’ claims countries receive. In articular, we distinguish between local claims, extended by international banks through their affiliates in a host (or claim recipient)...

In this paper we explore empirically a long-standing question in the literature on finance for growth, namely whether the financial structure in terms of the size of the banking system relative to the capital markets matters for economic growth. We build upon the existing literature by...

No es extrano que una de las mayores y mas dinamicas economias del mundo tenga un sistema financiero que tambien lo sea. Los autores pasan revista a la evolucion del mismo haciendo hincapie en su aspecto cualitativo, concretamente en las reformas emprendidas para la modernizacion del sistema. Se...

After analyzing the different reasons why the financial system and also the regulatory framework induced procyclicality, this paper reviews the experiences of three countries which have introduced dynamic provisioning as a regulatory tool to limit procyclicality. The case of...