"The authors formulate and test hypotheses about the role of bank ownership types-foreign, state-owned, and private … hypotheses with regard to foreign banks. These banks tend to serve as the main bank for transparent firms, and firms with foreign … across bank ownership types. The data are also consistent with the hypothesis that firms with state-owned main banks are …

obtain measures of bank level productivity by employing the techniques due to Levinsohn and Petrin (2003). They then relate … such measures to a set of bank characteristics. Their main results indicate that state-owned banks are less productive than … their private peers, and that privatization has increased productivity. "--World Bank web site …

"Powell, Mylenko, Miller, and Majnoni analyze how data in public credit registries can be used both to strengthen bank …, including in calculations of credit risk for capital and provisioning requirements, or as a check on a bank's internal ratings … the Caribbean Region--is part of a larger effort in the region to analyze the effects of bank capital regulation …

the Finance Team, Development Research Group - is part of a larger effort in the Bank to provide research on what works to … strengthen countries' financial systems"--World Bank web site …

) update conducted jointly by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank (WB) in September 2015. As agreed with the …

The experiences of past financial crises have strengthened the Russian bank resolution framework. The resolution … framework has been effective in preserving financial stability. The effectiveness of bank resolution could be improved … public funds. To ensure adequate bank capitalization, a comprehensive review of banks' asset portfolios and collateral …