"Under the traditional "competition-fragility" view, more bank competition erodes market power, decreases profit … 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 …

conducive to crisis can also be associated with more unequal societies."--World Bank web site …

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larger effort in the group to understand the sources of growth and volatility"--World Bank web site …

study financial crisis resolution"--World Bank web site …

World Bank and the International Corporate Governance Network (ICGN), along with major fund managers, are formulating sets …

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 …

"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 …