'Afrique Centrale (CEMAC) and the level of bank competition at the regional level. Using a mix of quantitative and qualitative … excess liquidity in the region. Other data also indicate that bank competition within the CEMAC as a region is limited …

-affiliated institutions, promotion of electronic registrations, risk-based financing, and reinforcing bank administrations. The Board takes up …

costs associated with bank defaults. The distance-to-default, a widely used market-based measure of corporate default risk …

This paper investigates the efficiency of domestic and foreign banks in the Central American region during 2002 … foreign banks are not necessarily more efficient than their domestic counterparts. If anything, the regional banks that were … acquired by global banks in a wave of acquisitions during 2005-07 can keep up with the local institutions. The efficiency of …

banks. The overall assessment of the peer-review team is that Switzerland is generally in compliance with the Basel Core …

This paper associates both the increase in risk taken by wholesale banks in the United States and the decline in … earnings at wholesale banks in Japan with a reduction in the franchise value of wholesale banking. In contrast with the … that banks’ franchise value originates in their provision of liquidity and payments services to their customers. Therefore …