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Risk Instability and the Pattern of Foreign Direct Investment in the Middle East and North Africa Region
International Monetary Fund - 2004
This paper demonstrates that instability associated with investment risk is critical in explaining the level of foreign direct investment for the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) countries, which generally have higher investment risk than developed countries. The empirical results support...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014401431
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Spillovers in International Corporate Taxation
International Monetary Fund - 2014
This paper explores the nature, significance and policy implications of spillovers in international corporate taxation-the effects of one country's rules and practices on others. It complements current initiatives focused on tax avoidance by multinationals, notably the G20-OECD project on Base...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014410572
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Taxation Windfall Internationalization Korean Capital Markets
International Monetary Fund - 1990
The paper describes the evolution of the corporate stock and bond markets in Korea and the Government’s role in this evolution and its policy with regard to internationalization of the capital market. The paper analyzes problems encountered in gradually opening the Korean capital market to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014395771
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Foreign Direct Investment
International Monetary Fund - 1990
This paper summarizes the theory and empirical evidence on the determinants of foreign direct investment. These determinants include expected relative rates of return, risk diversification, market size, technological advantage, market failure, oligopolistic rivalry, liquidity, currency strength,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014396385
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Regulatory impact assessment at the Bank of Italy
Cannata, Francesco; Libertucci, Massimo; Piersante, … - Banca d'Italia - 2010
at the Bank of Italy, proving to be a useful tool not only to refine the rules being adopted, but also to strengthen the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008764793
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Italian mutual banks and the challenge of Basel III
Cannata, Francesco; Giorgio D�Acunto; Allegri, … - Banca d'Italia - 2013
banks are faced with the upcoming Basel III reform. Economic trends continue to exert pressure on the traditional bank …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011100363
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Looking ahead to Basel 3: Italian banks on the move
Cannata, Francesco; Bevilacqua, Marco; Casellina, … - Banca d'Italia - 2013
In December 2010 the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision published a set of new regulations for banks in response to the financial crisis. This paper aims at evaluating the possible effects of the new framework on banks� available regulatory capital and risk-weighted assets and assessing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011100377
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Bank risk and monetary policy
Altunbas, Yener; Gambacorta, Leonardo; David … - Banca d'Italia - 2009
We find evidence of a bank lending channel for the euro area operating via bank risk. Financial innovation and the new … ways to transfer credit risk have tended to diminish the informational content of standard bank balance-sheet indicators …. We show that bank risk conditions, as perceived by financial market investors, need to be considered, together with the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004962187
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Macroeconomic uncertainty and banks' lending decisions: The case of Italy
Quagliariello, Mario - Banca d'Italia - 2007
This paper discusses the role that macroeconomic uncertainty plays in banks� decisions on the optimal asset allocation. Using a portfolio model recently proposed in the literature, the paper aims at disentangling how Italian banks choose between loans and risk-free assets when uncertainty...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005609339
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The effects of Basel 2 on Italian banks: results of the 5th quantitative simulation
Cannata, Francesco - Banca d'Italia - 2006
In 2007 the new framework for capital adequacy of banks (Basel 2), defined in 2004 by the Basel Committee for Banking Supervision, will replace the 1988 Accord (Basel 1) in all major countries. In the last years the Committee has carried out several impact studies in order to simulate the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005113685