associated with bank soundness. Using data for over 3,000 banks in 86countries, we find that neither the overall index of BCP … compliance nor its individual components are robustly associated with bank risk measured by Z-scores. We also fail to find a …

. The paper discusses the corporate governance of Italian banks, its regulatory framework, and the specific challenges … arising from the role played by foundations and large cooperatives. Although Italian banks have recently made progress in … shareholders; (ii) implementing the new related party lending regulation with tightened definitions; (iii) strengthening oversight …

This technical note on strategic issues in Development Bank (DB) reform for Mexico examines advances in the area of DB …, transparency of subsidies, and performance behavior of DBs during 2000-05. Risk-adjusted capital ratios have diminished since 2000 …, in part owing to more stringent regulatory requirements, but are comparable with those of commercial banks, as the same …

companies, and pension funds. Bank Indonesia (BI), the central bank, is responsible for regulation and supervision of the … (FSAP). The Indonesian financial sector comprises banks, multi-finance companies, capital market companies, insurance …

the implications for financial stability, exploiting a bank-level dataset that covers about 11,000 banks in the U.S. and …This paper analyzes the evolution of bank funding structures in the run up to the global financial crisis and studies … Europe during 2001?09. The results show that banks with weaker structural liquidity and higher leverage in the pre …

The paper studies risk mitigation associated with capital regulation, in a context where banks may choose tail risk … pre-crisis bank behavior, and suggest implications for the optimal design of capital regulation. … liability. Moreover, higher capital may have an unintended effect of enabling banks to take more tail risk without the fear of …

to scale of the intermediation technology used by banks to screen and/or monitor borrowers. If the intermediation … the lowest feasible level of bank risk. Conversely, if the intermediation technology exhibits constant returns to scale …, or is relatively inefficient, then imperfect competition and intermediate levels of bank risks are optimal. These results …