The paper empirically examines the implementation record of international financial regulation of the banking sector … record is particularly strong in countries where large banking sectors and big banks are both present, and where regulation … only applies to large players. Sectoral concentration, bank health and the share of foreign ownership yield more mixed …

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 …

materialize. Financial regulation encouraging the decarbonization of the banks' balance sheets via tax-subsidy schemes …

Motivated by the world-wide surge of FinTech lending, we analyze the implications of lender' information technology … adoption for financial stability. We estimate bank-level intensity of IT adoption before the global financial crisis using a … novel dataset that provides information on hardware used in US commercial bank branches after mapping them to their parent …

This chapter discusses the basis for and concepts of implementing performance based measures in financial regulation … alternative measurements of services and disclosure performance are presented. The behavioural economics inspired approaches rely … service performance …

externalities between the two countries arise from cross-border bank ownership. The two countries face (i) a regulatory decision of … a decentralized way. In our benchmark model the two countries always agree on a centralized regulation policy. In … contrast, bailout policies are centralized only when international spillovers from cross-border bank ownership are strong, and …

stablecoin issuers raises the challenge of how to apply technology-neutral regulation so that similar risks are subject to the …

This paper investigates the impact of banking prudential regulation on sovereign risk. We show that prudential … regulation reduces sovereign risk and induces governments to spend more. As a result, countries with tight prudential regulation … have lower primary budget balances and accumulate more government debt over time. We find that prudential regulation …