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Corporate Governance for Banks in Pakistan : Recent Developments and Regional Comparisons

Khalid, Ahmed M.; Hanif, Muhammad N. - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2005

best practice corporate governance for banks. In view of a rapidly developing market with a slow pace of information … banking system as a whole. This study provides a survey of recent developments in corporate governance of the banking sector … highlighting important features of the codes of corporate governance established by central banks in the sample countries. In …

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Microinsurance in the Philippines : Policy and Regulatory Issues and Challenges

Llanto, Gilbert M.; Almario, Joselito; Llanto-Gamboa, … - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2006

This study assesses the state of micro-insurance in the country, identifies the players and their performance, and the challenges facing micro-insurance development. The term micro pertains to the capacity of a program to handle the small, sometime irregular cash flows of poor households, who...

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Misaligned Incentives and Mortgage Lending in Asia

Green, Richard; Mariano, Robert; Pavlov, Andrey; … - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2009

This paper provides a conceptual basis for the price discovery potential for tradable market instruments and specifically the development of mortgage securitization in Asia and the potential dangers of such markets. Nonetheless we argue for the potential importance of securitization in Asia...

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Integrated Financial Supervision : An Institutional Perspective for the Philippines

Milo, Melanie S. - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2007

and governance structures. Key institutional characteristics must already be in place to undertake such a reform …

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Stock Price Manipulation : The Role of Intermediaries

Siddiqi, Hammad - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2007

We set out to study stock price manipulation when the manipulator is in the role of an intermediary (broker). We find that in the absence of superior information, the broker can manipulate equilibrium outcomes without losing its credibility with respect to accurate forecasting. The result...

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Tsunami in New York Earthquake in Beijing?

He, FAN - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2008

A butterfly in New York flaps its wingsand may finally cause a storm in BeijingWellthenhow about a devastating tsunami in New York? In the last monththe whole world watched the American financial crisis unfolding day-by-dayRipples from the Wall Street spread to each corner of the global...

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Financial Development : A Broader Perspective

Reid, Richard - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2010

This paper seeks to add to the current debate about financial development and growth in the emerging world by looking at how different financial systems evolve : how and why financial structures change during various stages of development, how best to measure them, and seeing what practical...

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Financial Inclusion and Financial Stability : Current Policy Issues

Hannig, Alfred; Jansen, Stefan - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2010

The recent financial crisis has shown that financial innovation can have devastating systemic impacts. International standard setters and national regulators response has been a global concerted effort to overhaul and tighten financial regulations. However, at a time of designing stricter...

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Dragon on a Short Leash : An Inside-Out Analysis of China Investment Corporation

Eaton, Sarah; Yuxuan, Zhang - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2008

Rapid growth in the number and size of sovereign wealth funds (SWFs) in recent years has occasioned a broad-ranging policy debate about how best to accommodate or, indeed, limit the participation of these funds in the worlds capital markets. The announcement in March 2007 that China would open...

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The Government and the Financial System : an Overview

Ikeo, Kazuhito; Goto, Yasuo - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2006

This paper surveys the relationship between the government and the financial system in Japan, mainly from the viewpoint of financial stocks, to gain an overall perspective and identify where any problems lie. During this decade, it seems that the relationship between the government and the...

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