We examine the impact of various dimensions of financial reform on the likelihood of systemic and non-systemic banking … crises. Using new financial reform measures for a large sample of developing and developed countries for the period 1973 to … of financial reform reduce the likelihood of systemic crises. We also show that after a country has reformed, the …

untraded consumer goods in an uncertain productive environment, borrowing funds from a bank in either the home or the foreign … of bank failure is partly borne by taxpayers in the banks' home countries. Moreover, each bank chooses the share of its … lending allocated between domestic and foreign firms, but the bank's overall loan volume is fixed by a capital requirement set …

Most theoretical central bank models use short horizons and focus on a single tradeoff. However, in reality central … bankruptcy. We term these factors discipline and stability effects, respectively. The central bank's welfare decreases with …

coordinated ones when governments care equally about bank profits, taxpayers, and consumers …

We study the efficiency of banking regulation under financial integration. Banks freely choose the jurisdiction where …

This paper seeks to understand the interplay between banks, bank regulation, sovereign default risk and central bank … guarantees in a monetary union. I assume that banks can use sovereign bonds for repurchase agreements with a common central bank … in other “safe” countries will impose tighter regulation. As a result, governments in risky countries get to borrow more …

granular effects: if markets are very concentrated in terms of the size distribution of banks, idiosyncratic shocks at the bank … of itself, and it may also influence concentration in banking and thus the impact of bank-specific shocks for the … micro-macro panel dataset. Our research has three main findings: First, bank-level shocks significantly impact on GDP …

rating agency and the bank corrupts rating quality, rating-independent regulation enhances welfare. The welfare benefits are …This paper models the strategic interaction between a rating agency, a bank and a bank regulator who lacks information … about bank asset risk. The regulator can either (1) make bank capital requirements contingent on credit ratings; or (2) set …