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Early warning system for economic and financial risks in Kazakhstan
Bhattacharyay, Biswanath; Dlugosch, Dennis; Kolb, Benedikt - 2009
-prudential indicators. The system will be tested using a case study referring to Kazakhstan. The main novelty of the study lies in designing … economic environment of Kazakhstan and in studying the interaction of these composite indicators. An additional innovation is … data which until now have not been used much in this area of research. -- banking crisis ; leading indicators ; Kazakhstan …
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Tax vs. regulation policy and the location of financial sector FDI
Merz, Julia; Overesch, Michael; Wamser, Georg - 2015
This paper analyzes how corporate taxation and regulatory requirements affect the location of financial sector FDI. We use novel information on new financial services entities established by multinational firms in 83 host countries. We find a negative effect of host country taxes on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011334235
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The incidence of bank regulations and taxes on wages : evidence from US states
Goodspeed, Timothy J. - 2012
Banks and the financial sector have come under increased scrutiny since the 2008 financial crisis. Regulations concerning the banking sector have been re-written and there have been calls for increased taxation of banks (as companies) and the remuneration of bankers. In general, two sorts of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009687296
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Bank capital regulation with an opportunistic rating agency
Efing, Matthias - 2013 - First draft: May, 2012, This version: May 16, 2013
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 rating-independent capital requirements. Truthful...
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Sovereign default risk and banks in a monetary union
Uhlig, Harald - 2013 - This revision: August 12, 2013
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, and that their sovereign partially backs up any...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009786077
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Bank concentration and monetary policy pass-through
Gödl-Hanisch, Isabel - 2023
This paper analyzes the implications of the gradual rise in bank concentration since the 1990s for the transmission of monetary policy. I use branch-level data on deposit and loan rates to evaluate the monetary policy pass-through conditional on the level of local bank concentration and bank...
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Cross-border banking in regulated markets : is financial integration desirable?
Haufler, Andreas; Wooton, Ian - 2016
We set up a two-country, regional model of trade in financial services. Competitive firms in each country manufacture untraded consumer goods in an uncertain productive environment, borrowing funds from a bank in either the home or the foreign market. Duopolistic banks can choose their levels of...
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Why countries differ in thin capitalization rules : the role of financial development
Mardan, Mohammed - 2015
In the absence of financial frictions, the purpose of thin capitalization rules is to limit multinational firms’ possibilities of engaging in tax planning via debt shifting. This paper analyzes the effects of thin capitalization rules in the case where firms have limited access to external...
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What drives financial development? : a meta-regression analysis
Doucouliagos, Chris; Haan, Jakob de; Sturm, Jan-Egbert - 2020
This paper offers a meta-regression analysis of the literature on the drivers of financial development. Our results based on 1900 estimates suggest that institutional quality is positively correlated to both private sector credit and stock market capitalization (both as share of GDP). Domestic...
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The dynamics of finance-growth-inequality nexus : theory and evidence for India
Pranab Kumar Das; Ganguli, Bhaswati; Marjit, Sugata; … - 2018
The purpose of this research study has been to expand our understanding of the finance-growth "nexus" to finance-growth-inequality "nexus" in the presence of both the formal and the informal sources of borrowing. Using empirical evidence of IHDS Survey data for two rounds the study attempts to...
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