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Which public policies and ownership structures enhance the governance of banks? This paper constructs a new database on the ownership of banks internationally and then assesses the ramifications of ownership, shareholder protection laws, and supervisory/regulatory policies on bank valuations....
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relationship between the market structure of the banking industry and bank fragility, this paper studies the impact of bank … concentration, bank regulations, and national institutions on the likelihood of suffering a systemic banking crisis. Using data on … 70 countries from 1980 to 1997, we find that crises are less likely in economies with (i) more concentrated banking …
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and corruption in raising external finance, which is consistent with political/regulatory capture theories. Creating a …
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specific regulatory and supervisory practices and banking-sector development, efficiency, and fragility. The paper examines: (i …) regulatory restrictions on bank activities and the mixing of banking and commerce; (ii) regulations on domestic and foreign bank …
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This paper investigates the impact of stock markets and banks on economic growth using a panel data set for the period 1976-98 and applying recent GMM techniques developed for dynamic panels. On balance, we find that stock markets and banks positively influence economic growth and these findings...
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We develop a new identification strategy to evaluate the impact of the geographic expansion of bank holding company (BHC) assets across U.S. metropolitan statistical areas (MSAs) on BHC risk. We find that the geographic expansion of bank assets reduces risk. Moreover, geographic expansion...
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performance of banking systems. Since the underlying surveys are large and complex, we construct summary indices of key bank … regulatory and supervisory policies to facilitate cross-country comparisons and analyses of changes in banking policies over time …
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to test the interaction between inequality and financial development when the banking system was starting over from …
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We assess the impact of the geographic expansion of bank assets on the cost of banks' interest-bearing liabilities. Existing research suggests that expansion can both intensify agency problems that increase funding costs and facilitate risk diversification that decreases funding costs. Using a...
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