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Too Cold, Too Hot, or Just Right? Assessing Financial Sector Development Across the Globe

Barajas, Adolfo - 2013

This paper introduces the concept of the financial possibility frontier as a constrained optimum level of financial development to gauge the relative performance of financial systems across the globe. This frontier takes into account structural country characteristics, institutional, and...

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Bank Ownership : Trends and Implications

Cull, Robert - 2017

competition in host banking sectors, and help stabilize credit when host countries face idiosyncratic shocks. But there are …

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Borrowing Costs and the Role of Multilateral Development Banks : Evidence from Cross-Border Syndicated Bank Lending

Gurara, Daniel - 2019

Cross-border bank lending is a growing source of external finance in developing countries and could play a key role for infrastructure financing. This paper looks at the role of multilateral development banks (MDBs) on the terms of syndicated loan deals, focusing on loan pricing. The results...

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Financial Inclusion and Bank Competition in Sub-Saharan Africa

Mengistu, Azanaw - 2019

In this paper we study how competition and financial soundness affect financial inclusion in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). We use detailed individual-level survey data, combined with key country-level indicators of bank competition and financial soundness, to study the effect on the adoption of...

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Drivers of Cross-Border Banking in Sub-Saharan Africa

Mathieu, Paul - 2019

identifies some key patterns of cross-border investment in bank subsidiaries by key banking groups in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA …) and discusses some of the determinants of this investment. Using a gravity model relating the annual value of a banking …-border banking is in part driven by a search for yield, diversification, and expansion for strategic reasons …

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Capital Flows : The Role of Bank and Nonbank Balance Sheets

Hashimoto, Yuko - 2019

This paper assesses the role of bank and nonbank financial institutions' balance sheet foreign exposures and risk management practices in driving capital flow responses to global risk. Using a unique and previously unexplored dataset on domestic and cross border balance sheet positions of...

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Banks' Holdings of Government Securities and Credit to the Private Sector in Emerging Market and Developing Economies

Bouis, Romain - 2019

lower credit growth to the private sector and with a higher return on assets of the banking sector. Analysis suggests that …

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Banks, Government Bonds, and Default : What Do the Data Say?

Gennaioli, Nicola - 2014

theories of the sovereign default-banking crisis nexus …

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Risk Exposures and Financial Spillovers in Tranquil and Crisis Times : Bank-Level Evidence

Poirson, Hélène - 2013

For a sample of 83 financial institutions during 2003–2011, this paper attempts to answer three questions: first, what is the evolution of banks' stock price exposure to country-level and global risk factors as approximated by equity indices; second, which bank-specific characteristics explain...

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The Accountability of Financial Sector Supervisors Principles and Practice

Quintyn, Marc; Hüpkes, Eva H.G; Taylor, Michael - 2021

Policymakers' uneasiness about granting independence to financial sector regulators stems to a large extent from the lack of familiarity with, and elusiveness of, the concept of accountability. This paper gives operational content to accountability and argues that it is possible to do so in a...

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