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Demirgüç-Kunt, Aslı - 2009

. Overall, banking strategies that rely prominently on generating non-interest income or attracting non-deposit funding are very … risky, which is consistent with the demise of the U.S. investment banking sector. "--World Bank web site …

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The 2007 meltdown in structured securitization : searching for lessons, not scapegoats

Caprio, Gerard - 2008

"The intensity of recent turbulence in financial markets has surprised nearly everyone. This paper searches out the root causes of the crisis, distinguishing them from scapegoating explanations that have been used in policy circles to divert attention from the underlying breakdown of incentives....

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Reaching out : access to and use of banking services across countries

Beck, Thorsten (contributor) - 2005

"The authors (1) present new indicators of banking sector penetration across 99 countries based on a survey of bank … regulatory authorities, (2) show that these indicators predict household and firm use of banking services, (3) explore the … countries, and (4) relate these banking outreach indicators to measures of firms' financing constraints. In particular, they …

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Banking sector crises and inequality

Honohan, Patrick - 2005

"An apparent temporary narrowing of income inequality has been observed during several recent banking crises. But it …

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Corporate governance and bank performance : a joint analysis of the static, selection, and dynamic effects of domestic, foreign, and state ownership

Berger, Allen N. (contributor) - 2005

"The authors jointly analyze the static, selection, and dynamic effects of domestic, foreign, and state ownership on bank performance. They argue that it is important to include indicators of all the relevant governance effects in the same model. "Nonrobustness" checks (which purposely exclude...

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