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incentives to take risk and raise failure probabilities. The competition-stability trade-off is characterized and the … implications of the analysis for regulation and competition policy are derived. It is found that optimal regulation may depend on …
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Like in many other countries, inclusive finance for inclusive growth has become a policy issue in Bangladesh following the global financial crisis in 2008. Over the past 10 years, intensity of financial deepening and access to financial services has increased. Both banks and microfinance...
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regulation on the probability of a crisis. We test this relationship by applying a Probit model of a non-linear specification to …: it rises as regulation stringency moves from low to medium levels and falls from medium to high levels. Countries located …
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Financial inclusion has significantly advanced in Armenia during the last decade. Rural and urban areas, however, have benefited unevenly. The high cost of providing financial services, the lack of physical infrastructure, higher poverty rates, and the low level of financial literacy are the...
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Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) are important for employment and economic activity; however, they are perceived to lack adequate financing, which hampers their growth. As a consequence, governments have implemented a number of programs to foster SME lending and attention has focused on...
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the public, long-term systemic risk among banks tends to increase. From the dynamic perspective, bank penalties represent …We analyze link between mortgage-related regulatory penalties levied on banks and the level of systemic risk in the U ….S. banking industry. We employ a frequency decomposition of volatility spillovers (connectedness) to assess system-wide risk …
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. There are two main results: First, if all banks have enough liquidity so that they can honor their short-term obligations, a … financial transactions tax is entirely neutral. Second, in a model with correlated investment risk and short-term financing of …
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inclusion (together with some control variables) on some measures of financial stability, including bank non-performing loans … and bank Z-scores. We find some evidence that an increased share of lending to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs …
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Sri Lanka has achieved a high level of financial inclusion compared to other South Asian countries. Its financial sector comprises a wide range of financial institutions providing financial services such as loans, savings, pawning, leasing and finance, and remittance and money transfer...
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. Asian economies are often characterized as having bank-dominated financial systems and underdeveloped capital markets, in …
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