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In this paper, we discuss whether and how bank lobbying can lead to regulatory capture and have real consequences through an overview of the motivations behind bank lobbying and of recent empirical evidence on the subject. Overall, the findings are consistent with regulatory capture, which...
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The deferred recognition of COVID-induced losses at banks in many countries hasreignited the debate on regulatory forbearance. This paper presents a model where thepublic's own political pressure drives regulatory policy astray, because the public is poorlyinformed. Using probabilistic game...
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system of capital regulation that addresses these needs by making changes to all three pillars of bank regulation: only …
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financial tranquility always call for more stringent regulation over time? We examine this question using a simple portfolio … optimal regulation/macroprudential policy. Our paper implies that policymakers should not only consider the cyclical …
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Financial inclusion has been one of the key pillars of Colombia's development strategy for anumber of years. Financial inclusion policies have aimed at channeling microcredit to poor,spreading formal banking system usage, fostering electronic payment acceptance, andmaking financial services more...
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In Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC), financial technology has been growing rapidly and is on the agenda of many policy makers. Fintech provides opportunities to deepen financial development, competition, innovation, and inclusion in the region but also creates new and only partially...
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Changes to the regulatory system introduced after the financial crisis include not only mandatory clearing of OTC derivatives at central counterparties and margining of uncleared derivatives, but also prudential measures, including notably a 'Liquidity Coverage Ratio' which obliges firms to set...
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This paper describes how behavioral elements are relevant to financial supervision,regulation, and central banking. It …
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We examine the extent to which regulations of entry and credit access are related to competition using data on 28 manufacturing sectors across 64 countries. A robust finding is that bureaucratic and costly entry regulations tend to hamper competition, as proxied by the price-cost margin, in the...
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literature however suggests an opposite effect related to regulation, with tighter regulations encouraging foreign lending …
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