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Germany; Technical Note on Banking Sector Structure
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2011
savings, and bank profitability and efficiency. It also examines the benefits of public involvement and governance in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011244755
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Financial Stability in Dollarized Economies
Gulde, Anne Marie; Hoelscher, David S.; Ize, Alain; … - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2004
This paper addresses the challenges to prudential supervision in highly dollarized economies, where central banks and supervisors may be constrained in the use of standard money and financial policy tools. The study’s conclusions are the basis of an ongoing policy dialogue with IMF member...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005824860
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Trinidad and Tobago; Financial System Stability Assessment, including Reports on the Observance of Standards and Codes on the following topics, Banking Supervision, and Payment Sys...
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2006
This paper discusses Trinidad and Tobago’s (TTO) Financial System Stability Assessment, including Reports on the Observance of Standards and Codes on Banking Supervision, and Payment Systems. TTO’s financial system is relatively large and structurally complex, demonstrating both...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005825460
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Are More Competitive Banking Systems More Stable?
Cihák, Martin; Wolfe, Simon; Schaeck, Klaus - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2006
This paper provides the first empirical analysis of the cross-country relationship between a direct measure of competitive conduct of financial institutions and banking system fragility. Using the Panzar and Rosse H-Statistic as a measure for competition in 38 countries during 1980-2003, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005825680
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Does Regulatory Governance Matter for Financial System Stability? An Empirical Analysis
Das, Udaibir S.; Quintyn, Marc; Chenard, Kina - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2004
This paper provides empirical evidence that the quality of regulatory governance-governance practices adopted by financial system regulators and supervisors-matters for financial system soundness. The paper constructs indices of financial system soundness and regulatory governance, based on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005825836
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Financial Sector Reforms and Prospects for Financial Integration in Maghreb Countries
Sole, Juan; Sensenbrenner, Gabriel; Tahari, Amor; … - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2007
A healthy and dynamic financial sector is essential to achieving high and sustainable economic growth in the Maghreb region-Algeria, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, and Tunisia. Financial integration within the Maghreb region will help deepen financial markets, increase their efficiency, and enhance...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005825882
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Bank Ownership, Market Structure and Risk
Nicoló, Gianni De; Loukoianova, Elena - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2007
relationship between banks' risk of failure, market structure, bank ownership, and banks' screening and bankruptcy costs. These …,000 bank-year observations for 133 non-industrialized countries during the 1993-2004 period. Four main results obtain. First …, the positive and significant relationship between bank concentration and bank risk of failure found in Boyd, De Nicolò and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005826093
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Crisis in Competitive Versus Monopolistic Banking Systems
Smith, Bruce D.; Nicoló, Gianni De; Boyd, John H. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2003
different model specifications, the banking industry is either a monopoly bank or a competitive banking industry. If the nominal … under competition than under monopoly. However, this apparent advantage of the monopoly bank is due strictly to the fact …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005826156
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Distress in European Banks; An Analysis Basedon a New Dataset
Poghosyan, Tigran; Cihák, Martin - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2009
identified late, solutions are much more costly. Until recently, Europe has seen only a small number of outright bank failures …, which made the estimation of early warning models for bank supervision very difficult. This paper presents a unique database … of individual bank distress across the European Union from mid-1990s to 2008. Using this data set, we analyze the causes …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005826186
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The Benefits and Costs of Intervening in Banking Crises
Frydl, Edward J.; Quintyn, Marc - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2000
rate on assets financed by bank loans. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005826210