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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...
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This chapter discusses the basis for and concepts of implementing performance based measures in financial regulation …
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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 …
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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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. If the share of privacy-concerned users is sufficiently small, privacy regulation has a negative effect on innovation and …We analyze how a privacy regulation taking the form of a cap on information disclosure affects quality …-enhancing innovation incentives by a monopolist—who derives revenues solely from disclosing user data to third parties—and consumer surplus …
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We compare integration of economic, matching and networking markets. There can be losers from integration in all three cases, but their relative numbers depend on the type of market. There can be many losers from integration of pure exchange economies. There are relatively few losers from...
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In this paper, we investigate the impact of trade and financial liberalization on the degree of stock market co-movement among emerging economies. Using a sample of 25 developing countries observed over 15 years, we estimate the impact of reforms which aim at opening these countries to trade and...
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We consider the regulation of national firms in a common market. Regulators can influence the production of national …
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We study the nature of individual demands for environmental regulation and for trade openness in the general … respect to the stringency of regulation. Moreover, even though trade has the potential to benefit everyone, the poor may … oppose trade openness because of a concern that laxer environmental regulation will then be imposed in the interest of the …
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This paper investigates political uncertainty as a source of regulatory risk. It shows that political parties have incentives to reduce regulatory risk actively: Mutually beneficial pre-electoral agreements that reduce regulatory risk always exist. Agreements that fully eliminate it exist when...
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