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Denmark; Financial Sector Assessment Program: Technical Note: Stress Testing

International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2007

This technical note describes the stress testing exercises carried out for the Danish commercial banking system and the insurance sector. The tests were conducted as part of the Financial Sector Assessment Program for Denmark and were developed in collaboration with the Danish Financial...

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Denmark; Financial Sector Assessment Program-Technical Note-Competition in the Banking Sector

International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2007

This technical note analyzes the competition in the banking sector in Denmark. It reveals that Denmark has a fairly competitive and efficient banking sector. Measured by various indicators, efficiency of banking intermediation has been improving in recent years. The banking sector has become...

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The Gambia; Selected Issues and Statistical Appendix

International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2007

This Selected Issues paper assesses The Gambiaâ€™s external competitiveness by reviewing developments in several indicators, ranging from exchange rate-based indices to survey-based assessments of the investment climate. The paper reviews the evolution of several multilateral and bilateral...

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Why Do Central Banks Go Weak?

Oulidi, Nada; Ize, Alain - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2009

distribution of profits generally operate in poorer countries with more troubled macroeconomic and institutional environments. For …

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Cooperative Banks in Europe; Policy Issues

Fonteyne, Wim - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2007

This paper explains the continuing success of European cooperative banks through evolving comparative advantages. It points out that a cooperative is built around an intergenerational endowment without final owners, which creates particular governance challenges. Risks include the use of the...

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The Size Distribution of Firms, Cournot, and Optimal Taxation

Gersovitz, Mark - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2006

maximizes a weighted sum of consumer surplus, profits, and tax receipts can tax firms with different efficiencies differently … ad valorem sales tax, and a profits tax with imperfect deductibility of capital cost, and a combination of the last two … receipts. Analytic and simulation results are provided. When both ad valorem taxes and the imperfect profits tax are combined …

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Monetary Policy, Bank Leverage, and Financial Stability

Valencia, Fabian - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2011

This paper develops a model to assess how monetary policy rates affect bank risk-taking. In the model, a reduction in the risk-free rate increases lending profitability by reducing funding costs and increasing the surplus the monopolistic bank extracts from borrowers. Under limited liability,...

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Germany; Selected Issues

International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2006

This Selected Issues paper attempts to analyze the end-point problem and improve the quality of potential GDP estimates for Germany. It projects that Germanyâ€™s potential GDP growth will slow over the coming decade, mainly because of declining labor input. The paper focuses on a long-term...

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Analysis of the Efficiency and Profitability of the Japanese Banking System

Loukoianova, Elena - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2008

The paper analyzes the efficiency and profitability of Japanese banks from 2000-06. It uses a non-parametric approach, the data envelopment analysis (DEA) to analyze banks' cost and revenue efficiency. The results show that the performance of Japanese banks has steadily improved since 2001, but...

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Bank Efficiency in Sub-Saharan African Middle Income Countries

Chen, Chuling - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2009

We use bank level data to study the efficiency of banks in Sub-Saharan African middle-income countries and provide possible explanations for the difference in the efficiency levels of banks. We find that banks, on average, could save 20-30 percent of their total costs if they were operating...

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