This study considers the efficiency of banking in Australia during the post-deregulation period 1988-2001. Since 1986 …

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 …

We examine the impact of various dimensions of financial reform on the likelihood of systemic and non-systemic banking … 2002, our multivariate probit modeling results suggest that conditional on adequate banking supervision, certain dimensions … likelihood of non-systemic crisis increases after financial reform. -- banking crises ; financial reform ; financial fragility …

measure of financial liberalization, we focus on the history of interstate-banking deregulation during the 1980s, i.e. prior … of deregulation: in states that opened their banking markets to out-of-state banks earlier, house prices were more …

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

financing, especially long-term lending. -- small and medium enterprises, bank finance, financial constraints, banking market … structure, institutional factors, regulation, competition …

This paper seeks to understand the interplay between banks, bank regulation, sovereign default risk and central bank … in other "safe" countries will impose tighter regulation. As a result, governments in risky countries get to borrow more …