"There is a wide cross-country variation in the institutional structure of bank failure resolution, including the role … scheme are more stable and less likely to become insolvent. Involvement of the deposit insurer in bank failure resolution … thus dampens the negative effect that deposit insurance has on banks' risk taking. "--World Bank web site …

The process of bank resolution, or the procedure for handling insolvency of banks using a range of tools, including … this context, this report reviews models for bank resolution that provide increased flexibility and describes several of … the supervisory, legal and instrumental tools that can be used under modernized bank resolution procedures. As well, it …

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 …