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

Caprio, Gerard - 2008

credit ratings proved so inaccurate, and why it is superficial to blame the crisis on mark-to-market accounting, an …

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Banking on the principles : compliance with basel core principles and bank soundness

Demirguç-Kunt, Asli - 2006

"This paper studies whether compliance with the Basel Core Principles for Effective Banking Supervision (BCP) improves bank soundness. BCP compliance assessments provide a unique source of information about the quality of bank supervision and regulation around the world. The authors find a...

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Resolution of failed banks by deposit insurers : cross-country evidence

Beck, Thorsten - 2006

"There is a wide cross-country variation in the institutional structure of bank failure resolution, including the role of the deposit insurer. The authors use quantitative analysis for 57 countries and discuss specific country cases to illustrate this variation. Using data for over 1,700 banks...

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Cross-country empirical studies of systemic bank distress : a survey

Demirguç-Kunt, Asli - 2005

"A rapidly growing empirical literature is studying the causes and consequences of bank fragility in contemporary economies. The authors reviews the two basic methodologies adopted in cross-country empirical studies-the signals approach and the multivariate probability model-and their...

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Supervision of financial conglomerates : the case of Chile

Stephanou, Constantinos - 2005

"The author describes the presence of financial conglomerates and assesses the extent to which the risks they introduce to the Chilean financial system are mitigated by existing oversight arrangements (and at what cost). In particular, he questions whether the current silo-based supervisory...

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Improving credit information, bank regulation, and supervision : on the role and design of public credit registries

Majnoni, Giovanni (contributor) - 2004

"Powell, Mylenko, Miller, and Majnoni analyze how data in public credit registries can be used both to strengthen bank … supervision and to improve the quality of credit analysis by financial institutions. Empirical tests using public credit registry … empirical tests confirm the value of the data for credit risk evaluation and provide insights regarding its use in supervision …

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Market discipline under systemic risk : evidence from bank runs in emerging economies

Levy Yeyati, Eduardo - 2004

"Levy-Yeyati, Martinez Peria, and Schmukler show that systemic risk exerts a significant impact on the behavior of depositors, sometimes overshadowing their responses to standard bank fundamentals. Systemic risk can affect market discipline both regardless of and through bank fundamentals....

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Resolving systemic financial crises : policies and institutions

Klingebiel, Daniela - 2004

"Claessens, Klingebiel, and Laeven analyze the role of institutions in resolving systemic banking crises for a broad sample of countries. Banking crises are fiscally costly, especially when policies like substantial liquidity support, explicit government guarantees on financial institutions'...

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Can the unsophisticated market provide discipline?

Caprio, Gerard - 2004

"Caprio and Honohan question the widespread belief that market discipline on banks cannot be effective in less developed financial environments. There is no systematic tendency for low-income countries to lack the prerequisites for market discipline. Offsetting factors to the weaker market and...

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The regulatory and supervisory framework for fixed income markets in Europe

Dumoulin, Hubert Grignon - 2004

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