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Systemically Important Banks and Capital Regulation Challenges

Slovik, Patrick - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2012

Bank regulation might have contributed to or even reinforced adverse systemic shocks that materialised during the … of bank equity, regulation that is not based on risk-weighted assets would affect annual GDP growth by -0.02 percentage …

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Minimising Risks from Imbalances in European Banking

Barnes, Sebastian; Lane, Philip R.; Radziwill, Artur - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2010

The euro area financial system took excessive risks during the global credit boom, which in some countries led to an unsustainable increase in credit, higher asset prices and housing booms. This process helped to fuel large imbalances within the euro area. Banks played a key role in channelling...

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Prudential Regulation and Competition in Financial Markets

Ahrend, Rudiger; Arnold, Jens; Murtin, Fabrice - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2009

This paper examines how a range of stability-oriented regulatory policies for banking and insurance are related to selected stability and competition outcomes in these sectors. Based on survey information on financial market regulation, policy indicators for eight areas of prudential banking...

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Iceland: The Financial and Economic Crisis

Carey, David - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2009

The global financial and economic crisis has struck Iceland with extreme force. Iceland’s three main banks, accounting for almost all of the banking system, failed in October 2008. They were unable to resist the deterioration in global financial markets following the failure of Lehman...

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Overcoming the Financial Crisis in the United States

Michelis, Andrea de - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2009

The global financial crisis that emerged in mid 2007 has caused considerable economic disruptions in the United States and elsewhere, and exposed major flaws in the global financial system. After examining the origins of the crisis, this paper recommends specific policy responses to resolve the...

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Financial Market Stability in the European Union: Enhancing Regulation and Supervision

Lawson, Jeremy; Barnes, Sebastian; Sollie, Marte - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2009

Financial innovation and integration have spurred financial development and enhanced consumer choice. Financial integration has also been associated with the emergence of large, complex, cross-border financial institutions (LCFIs). This has changed risk profiles and made cross-border contagion...

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The Prudential Regulation of Financial Institutions: Why Regulatory Responses to the Crisis Might Not Prove Sufficient

White, William R. - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2014

It is now six years since a devastating financial and economic crisis rocked the global economy. Supported strongly by the G20 process, international regulators led by the Financial Stability Board have been working hard ever since to develop new regulatory standards designed to prevent a...

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International Capital Mobility and Financial Fragility - Part 3. How Do Structural Policies Affect Financial Crisis Risk?: Evidence from Past Crises Across OECD and Emerging Econom...

Ahrend, Rudiger; Goujard, Antoine - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2012

market inflows, and openness to foreign bank entry are found to reduce the vulnerability to financial contagion. Finally …, vulnerability to international bank balance-sheet shocks is found to be lower in situations of abundant global liquidity …, underlining the importance of adequate central bank reactions in situations of financial turmoil.<P>Flux de capitaux …

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International Capital Mobility and Financial Fragility - Part 7. Enhancing Financial Stability: Country-Specific Evidence on Financial Account and Structural Policy Positions

Ahrend, Rudiger; Valdivia, Carla - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2012

This paper brings together the results from new empirical analysis on how – under international capital mobility – financial account structure and structural policies can contribute to financial stability. More specifically, the analysis has identified features of financial accounts and...

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The Great Reversals: The Politics of Financial Development in the 20th Century

Rajan, Raghuram G.; Zingales, Luigi - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2000

We attempt to identify and explain the broad patterns of financial development in developed countries over the twentieth century. We find that, contrary to the predictions of most existing theories, indicators of financial development do not seem monotonic over time. In particular, we find that...

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