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This note explores the costs and benefits of different policy options to reduce the risks associated with credit booms, drawing upon several country experiences and the findings from econometric analysis.
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We model an economy in which domestic banks and firms face incentive constraints, as in Holmstrom and Tirole (1997). Firms borrow from banks and uninformed investors, and can collude with banks to reduce the intensity of monitoring. We study the general equilibrium effects of capital flows...
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resulted in deeper credit markets. To measure banking sectorreforms we use a new index that tracks policy changes in five … significantly influencethe effect of banking reforms on financial development. …
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This paper assesses the impact of the geographic diversification of bank holding company (BHC) assets across the United States on their market valuations. Using two novel identification strategies based on the dynamic process of interstate bank deregulation, we find that exogenous increases in...
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paper first presents stylized facts of international banking activities during the crisis. It then describes a simple model … liabilities of banks, a global deleveraging of international banking activities can occur. Simple simulations are presented to …€™ banking systems during the financial crisis to calibrate the shock. The outcome of the simulations is compared with the …
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In episodes of significant banking distress or perceived systemic risk to the financial system, policymakers have often … restructuring programs and may increase moral hazard going forward. Using a sample of 42 episodes of banking crises, this paper …
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This paper presents a new database on the timing of systemic banking crises and policy responses to resolve them. The … database covers the universe of systemic banking crises for the period 1970-2007, with detailed data on crisis containment and …. The database extends and builds on the Caprio, Klingebiel, Laeven, and Noguera (2005) banking crisis database, and is the …
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This paper considers how a comprehensive set of factors relates to financial sector performance in low-income countries (LICs). It finds that corruption and inflation are associated with a shallower and less efficient financial system, while legal origin and characteristics of the supervisory...
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This paper studies whether compliance with the Basel Core Principles for Effective Banking Supervision (BCPs) improves … upgrade banking regulation and supervision should consider giving priority to information provision over other elements of the …
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This paper introduces a new database of financial reforms, covering 91 economies over 1973–2005. It describes the content of the database, the information sources utilized, and the coding rules used to create an index of financial reform. It also compares the database with other measures of...
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