margins, and results in reduced franchise value that encourages bank risk taking. Under the alternative "competition …-stability" view, more market power in the loan market may result in greater bank risk as the higher interest rates charged to loan … these theories by regressing measures of loan risk, bank risk, and bank equity capital on several measures of market power …

, including in calculations of credit risk for capital and provisioning requirements, or as a check on a bank's internal ratings …"Powell, Mylenko, Miller, and Majnoni analyze how data in public credit registries can be used both to strengthen bank … empirical tests confirm the value of the data for credit risk evaluation and provide insights regarding its use in supervision …

In accordance with the goals of the innovation grant, World Bank staff undertook a study tour to Turkey to observe … that, while Turkey generates its own high-resolution weather forecasts, the bank's Central Asian clients do not. The …

"This paper examines the implications of bank activity and short-term funding strategies for bank risk and returns … risky, which is consistent with the demise of the U.S. investment banking sector. "--World Bank web site …-interest income generating activities such as trading increases the rate of return on assets, and it may offer some risk …

" The objective of this paper is to analyze the industry structure of banking services in Brazil in order to shed light … designing public policy for the banking sector. In particular, retail banking is found to be less sensitive to price competition … and to exhibit considerably higher returns than corporate banking. The authors identify and discuss the factors underlying …

transparency and accountability in government and industry alike. "--World Bank web site …

multiple banking and number of relationships hold for only one type of state-owned bank. "--World Bank web site …"The authors formulate and test hypotheses about the role of bank ownership types-foreign, state-owned, and private … domestic banks-in banking relationships, using data from India. The empirical results are consistent with all of their …