associated with lower inflation, a greater number of banks, and greater public ownership of banks. Higher deposit interest rates …

, reduced role of securities markets, imperfect competition in the banking sector and the resulting high cost of bank lending to … private firms, the traditional channels (interest rate, bank lending, and asset price) are impaired in LICs. The exchange rate … channel is also undermined by central bank intervention in the foreign exchange market. These conclusions are supported by …

This technical note on strategic issues in Development Bank (DB) reform for Mexico examines advances in the area of DB …, in part owing to more stringent regulatory requirements, but are comparable with those of commercial banks, as the same …

rate remained strong, and confidence in Icelandic banks stayed high. …

The ECB has taken a range of actions to address bank funding problems, eliminate excessive risk in sovereign markets …

view that monetary policy easing induces greater risk-taking by banks but also shows that the relationship between real … interest rates and banking risk is more complex. Ultimately, it depends on how much skin in the game banks have. The central …

’s survey of terms of business lending. We find that ex-ante risk taking by banks (as measured by the risk rating of the bank’s … on the internal ratings of U.S. banks on loans to businesses over the period 1997 to 2011 from the Federal Reserve … pronounced for banks with relatively low capital or during periods when banks’ capital erodes, such as episodes of financial and …