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z-score), then apply the stochastic frontier analysis (SFA) to obtain the risk-return efficiency score for each bank …, and finally conduct ordered logit regressions of bank ratings on estimated risks, risk-return efficiency, and the inverse …This paper investigates whether there is any consistency between banks' financial strength ratings (bank rating) and …
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The failure to spot emerging systemic risk and prevent the current global financial crisis warrants a reexamination of …
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financial crises, keeping deposits in a safe place and paying back their loans. Institutional risk profiles at the bottom end of … volumes. Although this profile may raise some concerns regarding reputational risks for the central bank and consumer … protection, in terms of financial instability, the risk posed by inclusive policies is negligible. In addition, risks prevalent …
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A key lesson of the 2007 - 2009 global financial crisis (GFC) was the importance of containing systemic financial risk … and the need for a "macroprudential" approach to surveillance and regulation that can identify system-wide risks and take …, the consistency of a financial stability objective with the more traditional and well-established central bank objective …
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lending beyond very short maturities virtually evaporated. Despite massive central bank support operations and purchases of … past major bank failures and why has it proved so hard to cure? This paper suggests that much of that answer lies in the … balance sheets of international banks and their customers. It outlines the basic building blocks of liquidity management for a …
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This paper contrasts the determinants of entrepreneurial entry and high-growth aspiration entrepreneurship. Using the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) surveys for 42 countries over the period 1998-2005, we analyse how institutional environment and entrepreneurial characteristics affect...
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This paper investigates a relationship between economic governance and the dual objectives of Microfinance Institutions (MFIs): poverty reduction and financial viability. Using an unbalanced panel of 531 MFIs the important role of other institutions such as country-level business registry...
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case that there were four primary failures contributing to the crisis: excessive risk-taking in the financial sector due to … mispriced government guarantees; regulatory focus on individual institution risk rather than systemic risk; opacity of positions … regulation put in place then was successful in addressing market failures, but how, over time, especially around the resolutions …
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Risk averse investors have to be compensated in higher expected returns when facing investments with higher risk … return to education and the risk involved in this investment. It seems that most of the countries fit the pattern well …: higher risk – higher return. …
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To identify the determinants of cross-country disparities in personal computer and Internet penetration, we examine a panel of 161 countries over the 1999-2001 period. Our candidate variables include economic variables (income per capita, years of schooling, illiteracy, trade openness),...
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