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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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Banking regulation invites banks to gamble when buying government bonds that regulators consider to be risk-free. The … regulation in order to enhance their fiscal leeway. We examine an unintended side-effect of banking regulation, namely the zero … area periphery countries to a restrictive macroprudential capital regulation shock. We find that, unlike in the US, euro …
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affects other countries by estimating cross-country tax and regulation elasticities. …
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supervision and regulation. When a MNB expands internationally with subsidiaries, the MNB operates under the legislation of … left to the national regulators. An important issue is whether the decentralized approach to regulation of MNBs creates … inefficiencies and financial instability. We show that lack of international coordination of regulation towards MNB …
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We study the efficiency of banking regulation under financial integration. Banks freely choose the jurisdiction where …
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We examine to what extent banks' stock market values during the 2007-2012 financial crisis were driven by increases in the default risk of banks designated as globally systemically important by the Financial Stability Board. We find that bank market values hardly respond to changes in the...
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We analyze the link between banking sector quality and sovereign risk in the whole European Union over 1999–2014. We employ four different indicators of sovereign risk (including market- and opinion-based assessments), a rich set of theoretically and empirically motivated banking sector...
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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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This study considers the efficiency of banking in Australia during the post-deregulation period 1988-2001. Since 1986 restrictions upon foreign bank entry and foreign ownership have been affectively abolished. Using Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) and Malmquist Indices, we find that the new...
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Several countries have recently introduced national capital standards exceeding the internationally coordinated Basel III rules, thus suggesting a 'race to the top' in capital standards. We study regulatory competition when banks are heterogeneous and give loans to firms that produce output in...
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