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Risk-return Efficiency, Financial Distress Risk, and Bank Financial Strength Ratings
Hua, Changchun; Liu, Li-Gang - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2010
This paper investigates whether there is any consistency between banks financial strength ratings (bank rating) and their risk-return profiles. It is expected that banks with high ratings tend to earn high expected returns for the risks they assume and thereby have a low probability of...
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Financial Regulatory Harmonization in East Asia : Balancing Domestic and International Pressures for Corporate Governance Reforms
Carney, Richard W. - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2011
Is the harmonization of financial regulatory regimes possible in East Asia? Focusing on corporate governance, which many see as a critical part of the 1997 Asian financial crisis, and which is also seen as unresponsive to calls for change, this paper argues that such harmonization is possible,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009653146
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Financial Regulatory Harmonization in East Asia : Balancing Domestic and International Pressures for Corporate Governance Reforms
Carney, Richard W. - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2011
Is the harmonization of financial regulatory regimes possible in East Asia? Focusing on corporate governance, which many see as a critical part of the 1997 Asian financial crisis, and which is also seen as unresponsive to calls for change, this paper argues that such harmonization is possible,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009653193
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Financial Regulatory Harmonization in East Asia : Balancing Domestic and International Pressures for Corporate Governance Reforms
Carney, Richard W. - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2011
Is the harmonization of financial regulatory regimes possible in East Asia? Focusing on corporate governance, which many see as a critical part of the 1997 Asian financial crisis, and which is also seen as unresponsive to calls for change, this paper argues that such harmonization is possible,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009653214
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Debt and Corporate Governance in Emerging Economies - Evidence from India
Sarkar, Jayati; Sarkar, Subrata - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2005
We analyze the role of debt in corporate governance with respect to a large emerging economy, India, where debt has been an important source of external finance. First, we examine the extent to which debt acts as a disciplining device in those corporations where potential for over investment is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009365427
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Implications of an RP-US FTA on the Philippine Financial Services Industry and the Philippine Economy
Calderon-Kabigting, Leila; Patiu, Liberty S. - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2006
The paper discusses financial liberalization in the context of a proposed RP-US FTA. It discusses the state of the financial industry, in general, and also reviewed the US-Chile and US-Singapore FTAs to be able to arrive at the proposed provisions for the RPUS FTA. It also tackles the reforms...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009365441
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Multi Factor SUR in Event Study Analysis : Evidence from M&A in Singapore’s Financial Industry
Tanuwidjaja, Enrico - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2006
and acquisitions in Singapores financial industry. We also study the cross-sector (banking and insurance) domestic … found that post mergers and takeovers in banking and insurance industries tend to have high possibility of negative returns. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009363889
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Determinants of Interest Spread in Pakistan
Khawaja, Idrees; Din, Musleh-ud - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2007
Interest spread of the Pakistans banking industry has been on the rise for the last two years. The increase in interest … absence of alternate options for the savers. The on-going merger wave in the banking industry will further limit the options … for the savers. Given the adverse implications of banking mergers for a competitive environment, we argue that to maintain …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009365463
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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
The emerging economies in the South Asian region have embarked on a bold reform process to develop the banking sector …. This development has improved the transparency and accountability of the banking sector because these countries focused on … banking system as a whole. This study provides a survey of recent developments in corporate governance of the banking sector …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009363283
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Dynamic Provisioning : Some Lessons from Existing Experiences
Santiago Fernández de Lis; Garcia-Herrero, Alicia - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2010
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 Spainthe country...
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